Case Studies
Flex MSE installation River Test, Romsey
Five Rivers Environmental Contracting were contracted to replace the failing wooden revetment with Flex MSE on River Test SSSI. This system allows walls to be built using Flex MSE bags. These bags can be planted in and hydro-seeded, creating a long lasting, green structure that will prevent the loss of river bank from erosion.
ViewWarminster Park River Restoration
Five Rivers were contracted to restore a section of river in Warminster park. We removed 300m of failing wooden revetment and replaced with bioengineering solution.
ViewBristol Avon Riverbank Repair
Bank protection and oak cladding for residential re-development project on the Bristol Avon, innovative re-use of large woody material to main habitat benefits.
ViewErosion protection on the River Nadder
Five Rivers Environmental Contracting were contracted to install bio-engineered bank erosion protection to prevent on the River Nadder
ViewAbstraction monitoring
Our team carried out aquatic monitoring required to investigate the impact of abstraction. Our multidisciplinary team of ecologists undertook fully quantitative electric fishing, macrophyte surveys using LEAFPACS2 methodology and macroinvertebrate sample collection across two seasons. Our high quality data will be used to inform water resource management decisions.
ViewLarge scale fish removal
Large scale fish removal delivered on behalf of a utility company, required as part of a water recycling centre upgrade. Using a range of fish sampling methodology fish were removed from eight lagoons and trans-located to a receptor recreational fishery.
ViewRock Ramp Fish Pass Sheep’s Green
Ambitious project to provide multi-species fish passage through the center of Cambridge through installation of rock ramp fish pass and in river habitat improvements in a busy urban park. Fish passage improvement is on one of the many tools to improve Water Framework Directive status and provided important connectivity for previously fragmented fish populations.
ViewBio engineered erosion protection on the River Rother, East Sussex
We carried out bank stabilisation works over a stretch of 800m for the Environment Agency on the ‘Udiam banks’ between Udiam Drain and the River Rother.
ViewCoppicing on the River Bewl, Kent
Working for Southern Water Services we carried out coppicing works on the banks of the River Bewl within the National Trust’s Scotney Castle Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
ViewLow Cost Baffle Installation, River Lambourn SAC
We carried out a project to install low cost recycled plastic ‘baffles’ onto an Environment Agency gauging weir on the River Lambourn SSSI / SAC at Welford in Berkshire to improve fish passage.
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