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This study seeks to examine the effects of restoration on the characteristics of an urban river, the River Crane. River restoration tries to re-establish the natural flow of a river by removing hard-engineering structures
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AN ASSESSMENT OF A RIVER RESTORATION SCHEME ON CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS AND FLOW REGIME OF AN URBAN RIVER Introduction This study seeks to examine the effects of restoration on the characteristics of an urban river, the River Crane. River restoration tries to re-establish the natural flow of a river by removing hard-engineering structures and encouraging the river to return to its former state. "The first and most critical step in implementing restoration is to, where possible, halt disturbance activities causing degradation or preventing recovery of the ecosystem" (Kauffman et al. 1993, Kauffman et al. 1995) In recent years hydrologists have come to the conclusion that forcing rivers to flow in an unnatural way is ineffective and costly both economically and environmentally. The river Crane runs from North Hyde Road in Hayes in a southernly direction through Hounslow and Twickenham to the Thames. A majority of the rivers flow comes from urban run-off. The restoration is taking place...
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