Large Woody Debris

[Charlieh]

Yes and the Dove and Churnet.

 

Ah a leek and district member then? if so this is part of the river hamps restoration project

[AJarb]

Nice job and something different always nice

[Charlieh]

another day another stretch of river!

 

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[Charlieh]

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[Buzz]

Nice work Charlie most of my childhood was spent pulling trees out of waterways.

[Charlieh]

ha, im not sure what the EA guys up here make of this yet, its a bit of a reversal in policy from a few years ago, but its great and hopefully will help the river recover to a more natural state, and this work is all on some very nice stretchs for fishing, as this work will hopefully improve fish habitat in the river, its just a bit stready, did four trees on saturday of 25 that had been identified in about 1.25km of river the rest will have to wait until autumn now for due to breeding birds etc etc

[madmatt]

ha, im not sure what the EA guys up here make of this yet, its a bit of a reversal in policy from a few years ago,

 

 

are you refering to the ops guys Charlie? As i guess you have spoken to conservation/biodiversity or what ever they call there selves in Upper Trent.

[Charlieh]

i think there is some scepticism as to if the trees beak away, thing is its not "main river" so ops delivary wouldnt work in these areas anyway even though this river can rise to bank top over night,

 

biodiversity seem happy enough as long as the trunks are left as long as possible, basically current thinking is that if the trunk length is 1.5x river width if it does break free it will just wedge itself rather than floating along way downstream. I just hope they all hold, been using either 1/2inch metal bars driven 1.5mtrs into the bed or as in the newer pics 3/4" steel cable drilled through the trunk and stump.

 

 

oh and i have my hi-flex's on under the neoprene chest waders certainly didnt feel the cold of the water

[madmatt]

I would have thought BioDiversity should be encouraging this. I'm sure there are some Ops Guys that would jump up and down about it, but in my opinion its all about the right thing in the right place at the right time.

 

As for Hiflex under waders I had them on under a drysuit week before last. As you say certainly don't feel the cold!

[Stephen Blair]

Looks like a nice job!

 

you need some beavers mate:001_smile: