the River Restoration Centre Case Study Series This site was last visited by RRC staff on 15 th April 2011 as part of the 12 th RRC Annual Network Conference Tel/fax: 01234 752979 Email: rrc@therrc.co.uk http://www.therrc.co.uk Channel Widening at Croxall Lakes Techniques: Bank re-grading & removal; creation of shallows in adjacent lakes Project location: Croxall Lakes Nature Reserve Rivers: Tame, Trent and Mease County: Staffordshire Project start date: September 2009 Project end date: March 2010 Length: 540 m (1.85 ha widened channel) + 1.2 ha shallows Cost: £161k (£144k capital works) Upstream grid reference: SK191149 Site background A sand and gravel quarry until the 1980s,

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