In November 2008 MNV was contracted to carry out some river bank protection works using willow spiling. The site was at Oatridge College near Edinburgh, an agricultural college where a series of demonstration sites have been constructed showing best practices in footpath and bridge construction, different gates and fences and different ways of managing water. [...]
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Final site tidying up around the upper logjam Here is the first update on the Meander Restoration project outlined in a previous post, including day-by-day diary extracts and linked slideshows showing the August 2009 completion of the groundworks phase of the project.
Normally part of natural flood management, this technique is designed to restore river channel features, to dissipate and absorb the energy of high flood flows. Natural river features include meanders, sediment features, rocks and large woody debris. The meanders are usually best developed from the piedmont zone and further downstream. In this part of a [...]
