Oxfordshire Woodland Group

Hi Kav,

You could use alder posts and boards providing these remain wet. Alder piles were used to build supports for crannog dwellings that were built on the sides of Scottish Lochs. Some of these piles still survive today even though they are now thousands of years old. See :-

DIXON, N., 2004. The Crannogs of Scotland - an underwater archeology. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. [ISBN 0 7524 3151 x]

Chilterns

Looks good - as a river restoration person I'm interested to know the scenario of the bank repair? Other options include using brushwood to help trap silt and create bank protection at the toe or dead wood in the channel that can prevent erosion and also act as habitat.

We built to client/EA spec.

The revetment was on a footpath where the bank had collapsed and took some of the surface away too, and because it was a main river we had to wait most of the winter for the water levels to drop!

Thanks for the other info, always interested in other solutions.

Kav