]> 2026-04-26T22:05:13+00:00 Case study:Bourne End Recreation Ground River Enhancement Project 500 en Approved Less than 0.5 m 5 - 10 m Creation of pools Fish habitat restoration Introducing large woody debris Habitat restoration Channel narrowing Re-meandering Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Chiltern Rangers Revive the Wye Environment Agency Wooburn Gree & Bourne End Parish Council Foundation for Water Research Great Britain Catchment Partnership Action Fund Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Chiltern Rangers Yes No Yes false Bourne End Rec before 1.jpg Bourne End Rec before 2.jpg Tree work 1.jpg BER 3.JPG BER 9.JPG Image30.JPG Image 18.JPG Image 26.JPG Image 28.JPG View downstream before work started View upstream before work started Tree work in progress, January 2016 Volunteers making a start on the first marginal berm Locally won woody material was used to create berms Marginal berms were constructed in daylighted sections of the river to ensure colonisaiton of structure by marginal vegetation Volunteers installing a small flow deflector to create a holding pot for fish Completed deflector with associated scour pool Completed work looking upstrea, 18th February 2016 Yes Allen Beechey 1 - 10 k€ Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Revive the Wye Landowner 51.57542,-0.70579 ChilternChalkStreams Allen Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Beechey Creation of pools, Fish habitat restoration, Introducing large woody debris, Habitat restoration,,Habitat creation, Tree management,,Channel narrowing, Re-meandering, ,,Community involvement,, Less than 1 k€ Revive the Wye Fixed point photography before, during & after the works. Monthly riverfly monitoring - Anglers Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (commenced September 2015) Allen Beechey 22240 Chiltern Rangers, Environment Agency, Foundation for Water Research, Revive the Wye, Wooburn Gree & Bourne End Parish Council View of completed works, 18th Feb 2016 Less than 1 k€ Landowner 2016-02-24Z 2457442.5 Image 27.JPG 2015-05-04Z 2457146.5 Complete The purpose of the Project was to enhance river habitat along a 150m stretch of the R. Wye that borders Bourne End Recreation Ground in Buckinghamshire. Through a combination of tree management work and the installation of Woody Habitat structures, the scheme narrowed the previously over-wide channel and increased heterogeneity of flow and habitat. The scheme was designed to directly contribute to the R. Wye achieving Good Ecological Status under the Water Framework Directive. This project was one of three habitat enhancement Projects completed on the river in 2016 supported by the Catchment Partnership Action Fund. The Project was managed by the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project (CCSP) working in partnership with the Chiltern Rangers CIC, Environment Agency, Wooburn Green & Bourne End Parish Council under the banner of Revive the Wye a local community initiative. The work as carried out using a combination of specialist contractors (tree work) and volunteers. The project was funded by the CCSP, the Catchment Partnership Action Fund and the Chiltern Rangers CIC. Bourne End Recreation Ground River Enhancement Project bourne end recreation ground river enhancement project http://http://www.chilternsaonb.org/news/261/19/River-Wye-Rebourne.html Yes 150 Thame and South Chilterns Thames Habitat creation Tree management Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames) wye (high wycombe fire station to thames) Bourne End Recreation Ground bourne end recreation ground Community involvement Brown Trout stone loach bullhead (Cottus gobio) Otter (Lutra lutra) Less than 1 k€ Revive the Wye 100 - 1000 km² 185 100 - 200 m Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames) GB106039023880 Funding contributions: £4,500 Chilterns Chalk Streams Project (incl. officer time) £2,300 Catchment Partnership Action Fund £1,250 Chiltern Rangers CIC (staff time) £150 River Chess Association (1 day at skilled volunteer day rate) £2,250 Volunteer time (30 volunteer days at unskilled day rate) Environmental flows and water resources Fisheries Habitat and biodiversity Hydromorphology Social benefits Urban 10 - 50 k€ Calcareous GB106039023880 Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames) Allen Beechey 1 - 10 k€ Chilterns Chalk Streams Project 2016-02-18Z 2457436.5 2016-01-19Z 2457406.5 2016-02-23T16:30:59Z 2457442.1881829 2025-05-08T14:12:59Z 2460804.0923495 Bourne End Recreation Ground River Enhancement Project 500 1 plainlist 5 [[Category:Case study]] [[Project title::!Bourne End Recreation Ground River Enhancement Project]] [[Subcatchment title::Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames)]] Bourne End Recreation Ground River Enhancement Project# QUERYbce59396a0d674137fa9c5b2998f58eb