Brook at Yeading Meadows, Hillingdon

The story so far How has it helped wildlife? This brook at Yeading Meadows was dredged  The increased light is encouraging and straightened in the past; separating it natural recovery of aquatic plants from its original floodplain and made it  Fine sediments are being trapped in AFTER – Thinned hedgerows and new berms harder for species to live there. This the channel margins which create have increased the light & promoting the recovery of aquatic plants restoration project, however, has revived more habitat the landscape by using locally-sourced  Channel narrowing berms have helped woody materials to reintroduce a more the river to flow faster and with natural flow to the river and improve the greater ease quality of its habitats. How has it helped people? The river was restored by  Local volunteers have been engaged in  Removing dense riverside hedgerows the restoration; creating berms and to let more light into the river; also introducing aquatic plants making it more visible and accessible AFTER - New gravels are improving water flow  Creating woody low level structures How does it help protect against flooding? (berms) to vary the river depth, trap  Increased numbers of aquatic plants fine sediment and encourage the right and the new woody berms help to growing conditions for more plants to slow, filter and store excess water grow in and next to the water within the channel, significantly  Adding coarse gravel to encourage reducing the flood risk. shallow water rippling in some places and deeper faster flow in others Partnership organisations  Planting native aquatic vegetation on Wildlife Trust, Crane Valley upstream berms Partnership, Environment Agency, London  Removing excess litter from channel Borough of Hillingdon. Nearest Station: Hillingdon