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In October 2009 Cain Bio-Engineering implemented a 650m river restoration scheme on the upper Hampshire Avon at East Chisenbury in Wiltshire.

This was the second phase of 'design/build' work that CBE had undertaken at East Chisenbury for  'Wessex Chalk Streams Project', a partnership between the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, the Environment Agency and Wessex Water plc .

The project focused on returning sinuosity and hydro-morphological function to this straightened and overwidened river section which is believed to have been dredged for 'Land Drainage Improvements' in 1962.

This habitat creation scheme will benefit key BAP species including Water vole, indigenous brown trout, Bull head, Brook Lamprey and Ranunculus community.

Click the video below for a project perspective by kind permission of Wessex Water plc.