Delighted that we are finally breaking ground on a new re-meandering / re-wilding project on the River Stiffkey in North Norfolk. Boy has this one taken some shoving over the line. Welcoming – in due course – 3km of chalk stream back to a pathway it was moved from several centuries ago. Restoring linear and lateral connections between the river and floodplain, restoring the hyporheic zone, adding complexity to the flow pathways, capturing carbon, providing habitat to coastal and wading birds, improving habitat for resident and migratory trout and maybe one day … for salmon?
Watch this space.
Great to work with Holkham Conservation, Ant Gagan and the Norfolk Rivers Trust, Aquamaintain and with expert scientific advice from Professor David Sear, Immy Speck and the team at Southampton Uni.
The yellow line on the map below shows the modern course. The blue line the new (old) course.
Build it right and nature will a) find it and b) improve it beyond your wildest dreams!
Chalk-Streams 
Fabulous work, but any chance you can help push the River Ems in Westbourne West Sussex, it is being sucked dry by Portsmouth Water—–they say they don’t take water from the river—technically correct but they suck it out from the Chalk Aquafer below it so the river soaks into the chalk bed killing the middle and upper sections. This is a Priority river but that doesn’t seem to matter or make ay difference unlike SSI or SNCI status. HELP, thanks Roy
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