After tipping top soil onto the embedded root wads as part of the River Breamish Riverbank Protection scheme, the Haywood Contracting workers have now completed the levelling of Site 1 (completed on Friday 1 November 2019).
It’s now possible to see how much land has been reclaimed and how the soft engineering has recreated the riverbank along its original course.
Since starting a pilot scheme around July of this year, the Northumberland Log Bank (Wooler) has been steadily growing. The Trustees and volunteers have been developing their skills, including the safe use of chainsaws.
Begun in late Spring of 2019, The Northumberland Log Bank at Wooler operates under the auspices of the Glendale Gateway Trust to provide free wood fuel to people in need.
We deliver seasoned logs to people who have difficulty obtaining or handling logs due to financial constraints, poor health, age or isolation.
NB: The Log Bank is not open to the public.
You are cordially invited to gather at the Breamish Valley War Memorial in the Powburn Community Garden at 10:50am in preparation for a brief wreath-laying at the foot of the memorial.
After laying boulders to provide ballast for the root wads installed on the riverbank, work on the River Breamish Riverbank Protection scheme continued yesterday with the tipping of top soil at Site 1.
Now that work has begun on stabilising the riverbank of the River Breamish, the project is moving on rapidly. Having finished laying the root wads at Site 1, some boulder-sized material has been placed on top to act as ballast (see the schematic diagram below).
