Case Study: Meadow Restoration – Wetland Design & Construction – Barford Client: Private individual, 2009 Project outline An element of the enhancements the clients wanted to make to their land to qualify for HLS funding was the restoration of medieval water meadows to ensure that they regularly flooded during the winter and spring. The aim was to encourage waders particularly Snipe to use the fields in the winter months. Ditch for water level control Earthworks Services Provided JPR Environmental undertook a topographical, habitat and species survey and wrote a management plan for the two principal water meadows on the farm. This project focused on the East Meadows and was designed to create a flow of water around the meadow by clearing the ditch that lay at the north of the site and rest

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