Aims and Goals:
The River Restoration Centre is a non-profit making organisation, providing a focal point for the exchange of information and expertise relating to river restoration and enhancement in the UK. They aim to offer impartial advice on river restoration to enable practitioners and clients, to gain maximum benefit from current experiences in a variety of easily accessible ways. They are not a project design or management consultancy.
Mission statement: “Through its activities RRC will influence future policy and practice so that river restoration measures become an integral part of sustainable and cost effective management in degraded UK catchments. Through services to its subscribers it will help others secure measurable improvements in river environments in a more cost-effective manner. The primary focus is restoring in-river and riparian habitats to benefit biodiversity and the restoration of river functions of economic and social importance.”
Background:
The River Restoration Centre was founded on 1st April 1998 as the successor to the River Restoration Project. The River Restoration Centre is a national information and advisory centre, for all aspects of river restoration, river enhancement and sustainable river management. They do not undertake the physical works, but aid in the scoping, design, supervision and assessment of around 50 projects per year, from simple bank enhancement to complex multi disciplinary catchment scale restoration initiatives.
Work for Ecological Restoration:
The River Restoration Centre promotes the restoration of rivers to more naturally functioning systems through offering technical advice and information on specific projects as well as general river restoration related advice. Queries on all aspects of river management are dealt with through the Centre staff and network of Advisors who have a wealth of practical experience in river engineering, hydrology, geomorphology, ecology and river management.
Current Needs:
Contacts and networking.
