River Recovery Project, 2015 - 2019 Partnership Project between Landowners, Hills AONB Partnership, Environment Agency, Woodland Trust and Natural .

£257,800 spent locally, using local contractors and suppliers, improving farm infrastructure, natural capital and environmental resilience. 2 Freshwater Pearl Mussel Boosted by £23,250 cash or in kind contributions from farmers and landowners. 13,300 trees planted by Recovery Sites created groups of volunteers through riparian habitat 16 sections of eroding riverbank and local contractors, improvement and reintroduction of protected, totalling 221m, by mainly along banks of rivers and boulders to enhance the variety and installing soft revetment of live willow stakes streams to enhance riparian quality of the substrate, and create infilled with small woody material and brash. habitat. Some planted in-field or new in-channel micro habitat. field corners, to intercept overland flow and surface runoff, 3,080 hours of 13 farm gateways restored and reduce soil loss by erosion. Volunteer through regrading and resurfacing with 17 sustainable livestock Involvement stone or concrete sleepers. generating £44,000 watering systems installed worth of kind 15 watercourse crossings upgraded. e.g. Solar powered submersible Through the installation of small culverts, or contribution. “The planting positions have all pumps supplying clean water to regrading and resurfaced approaches using stone Farm manager, drinking troughs. worked well.” and concrete sleepers. regarding tree planting for attenuation (of overland runoff) adjacent to a tributary of the River Clun. New lease of life 17.7 km of riparian Businesses supported 17 over mature or woodland habitat  39 farm businesses neglected crack willows  11 local contractors were pollarded. created or restored  22 suppliers, of which 80% 1.7 km of farm tracks through the coppicing of are local businesses restored, through vulnerable bankside Alders and regrading the slope and fencing wide buffer strips to Surveys resurfacing with fresh stone encourage natural regeneration and installing additional of bankside vegetation.  3 Highway Drainage Surveys and GIS Reports cross drains or grips. 8 sediment traps and  Clun Fords Survey and GIS attenuation measures, Report. 90 Fords. “Thank you so much for the incredible fence, gate and such as French drains, installed  1 Clun Catchment Crayfish railings that your contractor has erected. It all looks to intercept surface runoff to Survey fantastic, very high quality work and materials.” reduce soil erosion. Landowner of holding adjacent to main river Clun.