Case Study - Tidal - Monk Bretton

Project: Monk Bretton Bridge

Project Location: Rye, East Sussex

River System: Rother inter-tidal

Client: Environment Agency 


Date of Installation: 2004
 

 

Protect properties and land in the Romney Marsh flood plain from tidal inundation due to major flood bank failure.
 

An urgent and effective response was required, so Cain Bio-Engineering resolved the problem with a contoured brushwood mattress, anchored with a large number of hardwood stakes. Suspended sediment, deposited during each tidal cycle, rapidly filled the brushwood mattress, thus ensuring the long-term integrity of the structure.

In what is believed to be the largest installation of its type in the UK, an erosion hole in excess of 2400m cubic metres was succesfully re-claimed, with very significant cost-savings to the public purse.

 

 Thomas Brassey Environment Award 2005
 

ADA Gazette - Autumn 2004 - Bother on the River Rother! - View
Environment Agency - Project Excellence Award 2006 - View
Construction Photos - View