Case study:Brent Lodge Park Improvement
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Project overview
Status | Planned |
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Themes | Economic aspects, Environmental flows and water resources, Habitat and biodiversity |
Country | England |
Main contact forename | Neale |
Main contact surname | Hider |
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Contact organisation | Environment Agency |
Contact organisation web site | http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency |
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Project summary
Aim of scheme:
- enhancement of tidal defences
- conservation enhancements
- recreation provision
Work undertaken:
- cleaning up of existing foreshore
- creation of new shingle beach
- attachment of horizontal and vertical timbers to promote algal growth
- reed planting in Bullhead dock
- reducing size of jetty increasing direct light to the foreshore The site is adjacent to the River Thames in Rotherhithe. Bellamys Wharf and Bullhead Dock were a sand and gravel unloading facility with a high jetty.
The initial proposal was to infill both docks, however only a small encroachment was allowed to enable the rebuilding of a new river wall at the other dock.
Neale Hider: 07/01/2009 “The Brent Lodge Park river restoration is more like an improvement after our consultation with Jacobs. We cannot reinstate the double meander (original course) as originally planned due to the contaminated waste that it had been back filled with. Instead we have outlined a different course for the meander to run (and break the river away from its current straight path) while retaining the old channel as a backwater/flood relief channel.”
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Boston Manor, Brent River Park Phase II, Clitherow's Island, Brentford eel pass, Osterley Weir, Hanwell eel pass, Stonebridge Estate, Stoney Sluice, Brentford eel pass, Thames Lock Weir, Brentford eel pass
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