Yardley Brook rises in south-east Birmingham and emerges from a culvert onto the floodplain of the Cole in a concrete channel. The catchment is highly urbanised, with over 150,000 people living within 2km of the river. Urban run-off thus causes periodic poor water quality and significant litter. The brook is within an area of public open space. Originally, a sewage outfall, the brook no longer needed to be contained in a concrete straight-jacket due to closure of the sewage works upstream c.30 years ago. The brook is located within the Project Kingfisher area; a collaboration between local and statutory authorities and volunteer groups to achieve a substantial increase in the wildlife quality of an 11km section of the Cole and adjacent land in Solihull and Birmingham. The objective was to replace a concrete channel with a less constrained river channel.

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17th November 2008	RRC Case Study Series - Summary of Yardley Brook restoration project
File :	yardley_brook.pdf (109 KB)