After driving in several vertical posts and continuing to line them up along the riverbank, the contractors undertaking the River Breamish Riverbank Protection works have been spending hours backfilling the log matrix.
The River Breamish Riverbank Protection works began a few days ago by driving vertical posts into the ground at Site 2.
The team of three contractors have continued to drive more posts into the ground, following the line of the riverbank.
Since restoration work began at Site 2 as part of the River Breamish Riverbank Protection, the project to reinstate and protect the River Breamish riverbank from lateral erosion between Brandon and Ingram has continued apace.
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.
