Afon Merin RRC Member Site Visit
Josh Robins, RRC |
Josh Robins, RRC |
Guest blog - Ann Skinner, RRC Board
8 members attended a fantastic site visit to the Allt Lorgy in Cairngorm on Wednesday 13th April 2022, the first since the beginning of the pandemic! This project won the UK River Prize in 2020 for reach scale, process-based river restoration resulting in a self-sustaining system, and now provides an important demonstration site for landowners, Fisheries Boards and students. |
Yesterday Jackie and I travelled down to Hampshire for a site visit at the Tichborne Restoration Project, near Alresford, near Winchester. The group of 20 delegates gathered at the Tichborne Arms in the small village of Tichborne, sheltering from the heavy rain by crowding under trees! The rain did not stop throughout the whole visit, and the advised wellies proved essential. |
Last week the RRC team joined Diana Hammond and Jane Everett from Affinity Water, and Judy England from Environment Agency, for a site visit around Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Not too far from our office, the trip involved going along to see the Highly Commended Manor Park Road improvements on the River Lea in Luton. |
Nicola Mackley, RRC
Last week I went down to Somerset for a tour of the Hills to Levels Project across the catchment. Hills to Levels was the winner of the UK River Prize 2018, and winner of the catchment-scale category. |
This week the RRC and Natural Resources Wales held a site visit to the Ynni Ogwen hydropower scheme in Braichmelyn, near Bethesda; and the Afon Ogwen valley in Nant Ffrancon in North Wales. |
Earlier this week, RRC held a site visit to the winner of the 2017 UK River Prize - the River Avon, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset. The visit took place in Salisbury, with participants observing restoration techniques at two sites. | |
River Wylye, Norton Bavant | |