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Working for a Living Landscape R.Churnet – Tittesworth, Jan’15 River Churnet, Tittesworth Water ELJ Scheme - January 2015 summary

Tittesworth headwaters scheme

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Working for a Living Landscape

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