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R.Churnet – Tittesworth, Jan’15
River Churnet, Tittesworth Water ELJ Scheme - January 2015 summary
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Partners • Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership –
Headwaters Project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
• Severn Trent Water • Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Consultants • NS Entwistle / University of Salford Contractors • Mark Stubbs Contracting Ltd. • Fletcher Forestry Services
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Annotated Map
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5-1-15 Gabion failure
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5-1-15 Dry channel bed
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5-1-15 Meander neck
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5-1-15 Dry bed
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5-1-15 Overflow channel with entire flow of river
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Cut through Meander Neck
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Keying in trench for ELJ #1
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Keying in
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ELJ #1
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Ox-bow fish rescue
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Removal of Gabion rock rolls
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30 tonnes of timber to form the Key Pieces of the ELJ#2
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Bridge View with cut through established
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Removing blockstone to use in hibernaculum
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ELJ #2
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Rootwads used in ELJs
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Uncontaminated sedimats used for stabilisation / germination zone
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Capping hibernaculum with sedimats & soil
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ELJ #3
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Bridge View – constructing ELJ #3
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Bridge View – ELJs #s 1,2,3 completed
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New wildlife ponds
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Nick Mott [email protected]
01889 880123
http://churnet-valley.org.uk/projects/cvllp-3-headwaters