Foresters Lodge River Restoration and Wetland Creation

ds to the creation of a benched 2-stage floodplain and channel, installation of in-channel woody deflectors and contour swale creation. 2.Bench out the floodplain on the right-hand bank of the existing watercourse and excavate a new sinuous second flow channel. This will be fed by hillslope drainage

and higher flows from the beck via bankside scrapes and placement of in-channel woody material targeting spate events typically Q4/5). The upper bench of the two-stage floodplain channel will activate during a Qmed event (approx. 1 in 2 ye