Case study:Land at Buzzards Mouth Creek

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Location: 51° 30' 50.23" N, 0° 6' 23.91" E
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Status Planned
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Themes Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity
Country England
Main contact forename Rebecca
Main contact surname O’Shea
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Contact organisation Environment Agency
Contact organisation web site http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
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To expand and increase diversity of aquatic, marginal and BAP habitat and more natural river processes by moving back a flood bund and creating a series of pools and possibly a backwater whilst retaining much of the scrub. This will provide habitat for fish, invertebrates, birds and mammals including the BAP species Water vole. Water vole numbers have decreased rapidly over the last 10 years. The channel is currently culverted and devoid of any natural river habitat. The creek mouth is contolled by a tidal sluice which largely cuts Buzzard Mouth Creek from the Thames estuary.

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Catchment and subcatchment

Subcatchment:Buzzard Mouth Creek (Thames)


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Reach length directly affected (m) 250 m0.25 km <br />25,000 cm <br />
Project started 2008/01/01
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Mitigation of a pressure
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Bank/bed modifications Bank reprofiling, Deculverting
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Planform / Channel pattern Creation of backwater
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