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Projects of the year Land Trust Annual Review 2019

Health

“ The ambition was that
the naturalisation of the
brook would lead to less
silting and greater growth

and diversity of plant life,
resulting in a natural way
to combat the pollution.”

Dinnington Brook restoration

Over the last year, our managing partners on our site brook would lead to less silting and greater growth
at Dinnington, The Conservation Volunteers, have led and diversity of plant life, resulting in a natural way to
a project to successfully complete the restoration of combat the pollution.
a brook that runs through the site. Work then involved clearing the mass of overgrown
The work was designed as part of a landscape scrub and digging the new channel, which has
scale project to reduce levels of water pollution in several heights that will allow small areas of river
minor rivers. The brook at Dinnington contained high bank to flood during high water events.
levels of phosphates, was overgrown and no longer The early results of the project have been very
supported crayfish, amphibians or water vole. positive with water flowing well and light levels
The ambition was that the naturalisation of the significantly increased.

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