River Restoration

Wessex Rivers Trust proposes, designs and delivers a wide range of river and floodplain conservation projects. These include work to address pollution, natural flood management (NFM), fish passage improvements and river restoration.

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FReSH Water Programme

The FReSH Water Programme is an ambitious package of projects aimed at improving the resilience of our chalk streams to drought conditions.

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Watercress and Winterbournes

The Wessex Rivers Trust are co-partners on the landscape partnership scheme which is being co-ordinated by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.

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Upper Test Habitat Improvements

A project that dramatically changed in-channel features creating a better habitat for wildlife.

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Bryanston Weir Bypass

A new fish pass has been installed to allow a range of fish species to navigate the weir and migrate up and down steram.  

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Ripley Brook

A Natural Flood Management (NFM) project with the desired outcome of trying to reduce peak flows entering the Ripley Brook.