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What is river restoration?
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What is river restoration?
What is river restoration?
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What is river restoration?
How to do river restoration
Step I - Planning your project
Step II – Design, objective & pre-monitoring
Step III - Project Construction
Step IV – Sharing best practice
Why restore rivers?
RiverWiki / Projects Database
Nature-based Solutions
River continuity
Fisheries
Continuity restoration
Habitat restoration
Meeting EU directives
Regional and national policies
Economics
Flood risk management
Healthy Catchments - managing for flood risk & WFD
Environmental improvements & case studies
Creation of compensatory habitat
Develop a strategy to manage sediment
Manage invasive species
Manage natural obstructions in the channel
Manage vegetation appropriately
Manage water levels appropriately
Minimise disturbance to channel bed and banks
Retain and improve existing edge and bank habitats
Sensitive timing of vegetation management
Sensitive techniques for managing vegetation
Change structures
Manage the risk of trapping fish and eels
Preserve and improve edge and bank side habitats
Remove or modify structures
Reduce erosion caused by land drainage
Allow the river to flood its floodplain
Improve channel geomorphology to create habitat
Improve the channel bed within a culvert
Realign flood defences
Remove culverts
Remove structures that are no longer needed
Replace flood walls with earth banks
Reposition or alter river embankments
Restore aquatic habitats in modified watercourses
Use green engineering techniques
Case study key
What is the WFD?
Why environmental improvements are needed?
Information on environmental improvements
Working near water - consents (England & Wales)
Glossary
Habitats and biodiversity
Hydropower
Agriculture and Forestry
Social benefits of river restoration
Spatial planning
Urban River Restoration