UK Projects Map > Case Studies |
The RRC has compiled a list of best practice case studies from the many site visits that its staff have been on over the years. The case studies give an overview of each project with key information such as dates, location, cost, design and the RRC's view on its subsequent performance.
The case studies can be sorted by project name, river name and year of completion by clicking on each heading.
Manual of Techniques | |
Case Studies |
RRC Case Study Series |
Technique | River | Year | ||||||
Blenheim Palace Project |
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Creating side bars, riffles and backwaters |
Evenlode |
2006 |
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Boot Lane Enhancement Project |
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Gravel riffle creation |
Shep |
2007 |
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River Cam Habitat and Access Enhancement Project |
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Bank and in-channel improvements |
Cam |
2009 |
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Chinbrook Meadows |
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Re-meander channelised section and floodplain storage |
Quaggy |
2002 |
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Churchill Gardens, Salisbury City Centre |
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Enhancing concrete floodwalls |
Avon |
2004 |
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Cornmill Gardens |
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Removing concrete channel, bank re-profiling |
Ravensbourne |
2007 |
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Croxall Lakes Channel Widening |
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Bank re-grading & removal, creation of shallows in adjacent lakes |
Tame, Trent & Mease |
2010 |
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Day Brook Water Meadow Project |
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Small-scale urban river restoration – re-meandering |
Day Brook |
2008 |
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Dove Weir Removal, Dovedale |
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Weir Removal, Re-wilding techniques using large wood |
Dove |
2010 |
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River Glaven Restoration Project |
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Introducing variation in river depth, width & flow & re-connection of a flood plain |
Glaven |
2006 |
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Godinton Park Channel Enhancements |
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Revetment of eroded banks and channel narrowing, stock watering point and wet margin creation |
Stour |
2000 |
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Great Ryburgh Common Meander loop Re-connection |
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Rural river restoration - channel re- meandering and narrowing |
Wensum |
2010 |
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Hinksey Stream bypass channel |
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Bypass channel to improve fish passage and habitat |
Hinksey Stream (Thames) |
2013 |
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Fowlmere Nature Reserve, RSPB |
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Faggoting, bed raising, riffle creation, weed cutting |
Shep |
2009 |
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Ladywell Fields (QUERCUS) |
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Re-meandering, backwater and pond construction |
Ravensbourne |
2008 |
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Langford Lakes |
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Improvement of in-stream habitats |
Wylye |
2002 |
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Linear Park Enhancement Project |
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Berm creation, tree felling, invasive vegetation management |
Pool |
2012 |
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Longwater Lawn and Mallard Wood and Mead, New Forest |
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Meander reinstatement, drain blocking and infill |
Beaulieu |
2010 |
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Meades Water Garden Regeneration Project |
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Gravel bed re-introduction |
Chess |
2008 |
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River Mel Enhancement Project |
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Faggots & Coir rolls, importing gravel, flow deflectors |
Mel |
2007 |
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Middleton Hall |
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Enhance a uniform, straight channel by creation of central islands |
Tame |
1998 |
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Milton Keynes Floodplain Forest Park |
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Multiple channel and wet woodland mosaic habitat creation |
Great Ouse |
2015 |
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Montford Weir Removal, River Calder Improvement Project |
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Weir removal, habitat enhancement, bank stabilsation |
Pendle Water |
2010 |
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Narborough Trout Fishery |
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In-channel pools and berm creation using existing deflectors |
Nar |
2011 |
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Ray Lodge Park, River Roding |
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Backwater and pond creation, bank re-profiling |
Roding |
2008 |
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River Rhee, Cambridgeshire |
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Narrowing, re-profiling, backwater creation |
Rhee |
2002 |
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Salisbury City Centre Millennium Project |
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Enhancing concrete floodwalls |
Avon |
2000 |
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Stoke Brook Floodplain Restoration, Stoney Middleton |
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Floodplain restoration |
Stoke Brook (Derwent) |
2008 |
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Stoke Brook Restoration, Stoney Middleton |
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Sediment removal, Riddling |
Stoke Brook (Derwent) |
2008 |
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Sutcliffe Park, River Quaggy |
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Re-meandering, backwater creation, de-culverting |
Quaggy |
2003 |
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River Tat Restoration Scheme |
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Woody debris, berms, pools and glides |
Tat |
2013 |
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Tokyngton Park |
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Re-meandering, backwater creation, de-culverting |
Brent |
2003 |
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Watermeads Island |
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Excavating ditches, water level control structures |
Wandle |
2008 |
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Wensum Rehabilitation Project - Billingford |
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Restoring a defunct meander |
Wensum |
2000 |
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Wensum Rehabilitation Project - Bintree |
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Channel narrowing, riffle creation, cattle crossings, deflectors |
Wensum |
2000 |
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Wensum Rehabilitation Project - Bintree & North Elmham |
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Floodplain reconnection, in channel improvements and bankside support |
Wensum |
2009 |
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Wensum Rehabilitation Project - Fakenham |
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Bank revetment using bio- engineering methods |
Wensum |
2001 |
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Woodsmill Stream at Sussex Wildlife Centre |
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In channel improvements |
Woodsmill Stream (Adur) |
2010 |
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Manual of Techniques Case Studies |
Technique | Year | ||||||
Alt |
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Radical re-design from uniform, straight channel to a sinuous, multi-channel river |
1996 |
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Avon |
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Narrowing of an over-widened channel using low cost groynes |
1997 |
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Avon |
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Fixing whole trees into the river bank for flow diversity |
2008 |
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Babingley Brook |
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Restoring an on-line lake to a chalk stream |
2007 |
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Braid Burn |
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New meanders replacing a lined urban channel |
2010 |
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Bure |
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Felling and placing trees for habitat and flow diversity |
2010 |
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Burn of Mosset |
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Breaching a flood bank to reconnect active floodplain processes |
2010 |
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Calder |
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Weir lowering and rock ramp construction |
2010 |
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Chess |
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Multiple Techniques |
1995 |
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Cole |
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Multiple Techniques |
1996 |
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Darent |
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Gravel reworking to restore a low flow channel |
2005 |
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Dearne |
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Creating a sinuous low flow channel in an over-widened river |
1995 |
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Dulais |
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Bank protection using root wads |
2004 |
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Highland Water |
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Returning a woodland stream to it's former sinuous course |
2009 |
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Inchewan Burn |
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Replacing an armoured bed with boulder step-pools |
2007 |
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Kennet |
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Raising river bed levels |
2000 |
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Little Ouse |
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Reconnecting remnant meanders |
1994 |
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Lodge Burn |
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Step-pool cascade fish pass and culvert bed improvement |
2012 |
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Great and Long Eau |
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Removing and setting back floodbanks |
1996 |
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Marden |
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Multiple techniques |
2000 |
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Monnow |
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Complete removal of a large weir |
2011 |
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Nith |
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Clay lined river |
2004 |
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Ogwen |
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Multiple techniques |
1998 |
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Ravensbourne |
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Opening up a culverted stream |
2000 |
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Rother (Western) |
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Reconnecting a remnant meander |
2004 |
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Rother (Tidal) |
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Brushwood mattress bank stabilisation on a tidal river |
2005 |
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Rottal Burn |
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Restoring a meandering course to a high energy river |
2012 |
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Skerne |
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Multiple techniques |
1997 |
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Somer |
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Sinuous low-flow course in an over-wide urban channel |
2011 |
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Sugar Brook |
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Diversion of a river valley |
1998 |
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Tall |
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Creation of on-line bays |
1996 |
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Thames |
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Floodplan wetland mosaic |
1991 |
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Thames |
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Bank revetment using low steel sheet piling and coir rolls |
1996 |
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Vallency |
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Creating 'natural' features in a heavily modified engineered flood scheme |
2008 |
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Yardley Brook |
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Replacing a concrete drain with a 'natural' channel |
1995 |