Beaver activity in Cropton forest
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Richard Burdon / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5568 x 3712 px | 47.1 x 31.4 cm | 18.6 x 12.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
26 August 2020Location:
Cropton, North Yorkshire, England, UKMore information:
Flood defences in Newtondale above Pickering. Rather than build a £20 million concrete wall to protect the town centre, Pickering council elected to build 167 leaky dams of logs and branches – which let normal flows through but restrict and slow down high ones . They added 187 lesser obstructions made of bales of heather and fulfilling the same purpose in smaller drains and gullies; and planted 29 hectares of woodland. They built a bund, to store up to 120, 000 cubic metres of floodwater, releasing it slowly