May 2014 Engineers Solve Marriott’S Way Badger Problem
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FREEREEPHAM LIFE YOUR Community Newspaper www.reephamlife.co.uk No. 13 May 2014 Engineers solve Marriott’s Way badger problem NORFOLK County Council has completed work to repair an unsafe, closed section of the Marriott’s Way at Whitwell, near Reepham, after the project was given the green light by nature watchdog, Natural England. The £35,000 scheme was needed after a network of tunnels, dug by Norfolk’s biggest badger colony, had left the long-dis- tance trail, which runs along the old railway embankment there, Photo: Michael Pender-Cudlip liable to collapse at any time. That posed a real danger to the thousands of walkers, cy- clists, horses and riders who use the Marriott’s Way every year and forced NCC to close a 300-metre stretch of the popular trail two years ago, for safety reasons. But with strict badger protection rules in place and any pos- sibility of moving the colony ruled out, engineers had to go back to the drawing board when estimates for plans to solve the problem using traditional methods, such as building bridges Part of the badger sett near Whitwell Station over the affected section or creating a permanent new route for the path, showed they could have cost up to £500,000. which put limits on the investigation methods and the times The approved scheme involved the path being reinforced us- when setts can be examined, so we initially commissioned Dr ing a system used in a wide range of civil engineering appli- Jenni Turner and undergraduate Louise Christopher from the cations, from roads and airfields to construction sites and old University of East Anglia to run a geophysical survey of the area, landfills, to stabilise ground where it is prone to subsidence. which could be carried out on the surface without disturbing It involved setting layers of geotextile membrane and aggregate the badgers below. over the path to create a strong and durable new structure, safe “The initial UEA geophysics gave us good general data about enough to support heavy regular use over the long term, espe- the ground beneath and a comparison of techniques, which cially by horses and their riders, and protect the badgers beneath. we were then able to investigate further with more detailed geo- The scheme was designed by civil engineering specialists physics and by drilling cores in selected locations away from Naue Geosynthetics after a series of geophysical surveys was the badger setts when we were permitted to do so. undertaken that looked into the ground below the path to iden- “All of this gave us an accurate picture of the precise depth, tify the composition of the substructure of the soil and the pre- length and location of the tunnels. What it showed was that cise location and extent of the tunnels. the badgers have almost entirely tunnelled through a very spe- Charles Wright, NCC’s landfill strategy manager, who head- cific section of the embankment. This is made up of softer sand ed the site investigation and design team for the Marriott’s Way and gravel which was presumably backfilled between two ar- project, said: “This is a good example of a multidisciplinary ap- eas of solid clay when the embankment was originally built. proach that has resulted in a standard design using well-proven “The tunnelled section had completely undermined the path technology. 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