Since the near completion of Site 1 of the River Breamish Riverbank Protection scheme, work is now focusing on the Site 2 (between Site 1 and the Brandon footbridge).
A team from River Tweed Commission have been electro-fishing (or ‘electric fishing’) in front of Site 2 to catch and remove fish. For their protection, they are then replaced in the river downstream and prevented from returning to the work site by simple hay bale ‘fish barriers’.
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.
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).
Following the delivery of the root wads to Site 1 of the Breamish Riverbank Stabilisation and Reinstatement Works project, the 6m-long root wads were being expertly shifted into place yesterday by members of the Haywood Contracting team.
Further to our post about preparations for work on the River Breamish Riverbank Protection to begin, following the delivery of the root wads, Project Officer, Joe Taylforth has been on site to take an aerial photograph and to put up an information poster. He’s kindly shared these with readers of BreamishValley.com and they can be viewed below.
Further to the article about the River Breamish Riverbank Protection scheme, overseen by Tweed Forum, the root wads have been delivered to Site 1 (the ‘whirlpool’) and are ready to be installed.
There are about 38-40 root wads, each approximately 6m long.
You’ll probably have noticed as you walk, cycle, ride or drive along the road between Brandon and Ingram, along the floor of the Breamish Valley, that the riverbank is eroding markedly in several places.
BULBY’S WOOD is a lovely picnic area in Northumberland National Park on the bank of the River Breamish about 0.5 miles out of Ingram Village in the direction of Linhope Estate [GPS: 55°26’28.337″ N 1°59’20.22″ W]
May Wilson (Hedgeley Parish Council) has sent the following information today.
No doubt you’ll have seen the wonderful Christmas Tree in the Powburn Community Garden (pictured above and below).
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