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Repairing the Rede

07 October 2011

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Tyne Rivers Trust has been busy on the River Rede repairing riverbank damage from livestock access. We have used woody brash bundles which we have pinned, using wooden posts, to eroding sandy banks. The idea is to prevent excessive bank erosion by increasing the vegetation cover of the banks, as vegetation makes banks more stable, especially during floods. The farmer has fenced off the river so that when seeds and soil are washed into our bundles, plants can sprout without being grazed off by sheep or cows.

We are busy throughout the Tyne system improving river habitat for the benefit of fish and the wider river ecology. Reducing fine sediment in rivers can improve gravel conditions for salmon and trout eggs and overhanging vegetation provides cover for fish and other cool water loving species.