Overview
Ecological assessment
Provide regional context- Identify priority habitats
- Identify and prioritise a range of possible restoration strategies
- Outline the hydrological/hydrogeological requirements of the proposed restoration
Landscape assessment
- Review landscape restoration strategies
- Provide regional context – including potential for bird-strike
- Identify regional priorities
- Identify and prioritise a range of possible restoration strategies
Outline the hydrological / hydrogeological requirements
Hydrogeological and Hydrological assessment
- Review restoration strategies employed in different hydrogeological settings
- Identify hydrogeological and hydrological constraints on restoration strategies
- Review hydrological restoration strategies – with reference to flood alleviation and bankside storage
- Baseline data collection
- Fieldwork
- Investigate the groundwater interactions between superficial deposits, the underlying bedrock and the adjacent surface water and wetland systems.
- Determine the hydrological and hydrogeological requirements of the proposed restoration
Engineering assessment
- Review engineering strategies employed in water-based restoration
- Review operational and cost constraints