East Halton Wet Grassland Creation
Case study
East Halton Wet Grassland Creation
Wet grassland creation on the banks of the River Humber
Scope
Situated on the banks of the River Humber, the
East Halton wet grassland project took shape
during the course of 2018.
A design involving a network of earth scrapes over
a 44 hectare site with an interlinked framework of drainage ditches and water control structures, this ambitious project sought to provide additional habitat for flora, fauna and wildlife. This project encompassed:
- Existing live watercourse management
- Earth bund formations
- Ditch excavations
- Earth scrapes to designed plan
- Inlet reservoir creation
- Wind turbine installations
- Culverts
- Hedgerow removal
- Footbridge installation
- Landscaping, planting & seeding
- Sheet piling Efficiency Part of this project placed importance on adherence to programme and to a certain extent, to expedite it.
To this end, Sweeting Bros Ltd invested in bespoke
designed excavation buckets, to replicate the scrape profile and improve efficiency and timing during the works which spanned a 44 hectare site. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wLS7MrCt8QQ Wind turbine pump installation
Bespoke angled bucket to increase efficiency and programme
Key Aspects
Water Control Structures & Management
EAST HALTON WET GRASSLAND CREATION A series of water control structures were planned
Client: Able UK as part of the design involving weirs, wind turbine
pumping, valves and pipework to ensure the water Duration: 26 weeks supply was adequately managed and distributed. Value: £355,000 Scope:
Situated on the banks of the River Humber, the
East Halton wet grassland project took shape
during the course of 2018.
A design involving a network of earth scrapes over
a 44 hectare site with an interlinked framework of drainage ditches and water control structures, this ambitious project sought to provide additional habitat for flora, fauna and wildlife. This project encompassed:
- Existing live watercourse management
- Earth bund formations
- Ditch excavations
- Earth scrapes to designed plan
- Inlet reservoir creation
- Wind turbine installations
- Culverts
- Hedgerow removal
- Footbridge installation
- Landscaping, planting & seeding
- Sheet piling Efficiency Part of this project placed importance on adherence to programme and to a certain extent, to expedite it.
To this end, Sweeting Bros Ltd invested in bespoke
designed excavation buckets, to replicate the scrape profile and improve efficiency and timing during the works which spanned a 44 hectare site. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wLS7MrCt8QQ Wind turbine pump installation
Bespoke angled bucket to increase efficiency and programme
Project Images
Challenges
using cofferdams, stoplogs and over pumping is often necessary to ensure safe working conditions.
Health & Safety
All workings were carried out compliantly under
CDM 2015 protocols requiring Construction Phase Dust Management
Plans together with comprehensive assessment of In very dry conditions, earth moving can generate all risks and method statements to minimise risks significant dust nuisance to surrounding areas ad it for all work elements. is necessary to deal with this.
Sweeting Bros Ltd are unique in that we have
invested in mountain rescue sleds and equipment to facilitate patient evacuation in the event of an Unexploded Ordnance accident. Our work is often in secluded, When excavating in certain areas, it is necessary to inaccessible areas with very poor ground undertake unexploded ordnance surveys and conditions such that ambulances or a helicopter develop a protocol for dealing with any should any may sink. come to be found.
Nearby Hull was the most heavily bombarded city/
Working with Water town in the UK by the Luftwaffe during World War
II, making almost half the citys’ population Working in or around water poses hazards for homeless and 95% of all homes damaged. employees arising from the natural environment.
Surrounding areas were also heavily bombed,
The presence of vermin and exposure to possibly in error due to decoys with many not found leptospirosis twinned with the possibility of and now lying dormant. drowning, all add to the normal risks involving accidents concerning machinery and moving parts. Sweeting Bros Ltd have significant experience over the last 50 + years of managing this risk.
Pumping out of accumulating / rising ground water
and the management of existing live watercourses
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