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