the River Restoration Centre Case Study Series This site was last visited by RRC staff in May 2010 Tel/fax: 01234 752979 Email: rrc@therrc.co.uk http://www.therrc.co.uk Straight and overgrown section pre-restoration River Shep, RSPB Fowlmere Nature Reserve Techniques: Faggoting, bed raising, riffle creation, hand weed cutting. Project location: Fowlmere Nature Reserve River: Shep County: Cambridgeshire Project start date: March 2006 Project end date: December 2009 Length: 600m Cost: ~£14,000 Upstream grid reference: TL405451 Site background The River Shep, a low gradient chalk stream, rises as springs at Fowlmere Nature Reserve. The river had been heavily dredged in the past

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