Five Rivers Environmental Contracting

Five Rivers Environmental Contracting Limited is dedicated to nature conservation and habitat creation, restoration and management. We have carried out environmental consulting and contracting works for the last twenty years and specialise in works that require thought and careful consideration of the particular site constraints. All projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst enjoying the experience and confidence of a subject matter expert in the field.

The majority of our work is carried out in restricted sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and, as such, we are continually striving to deliver projects within ecological best practices. To this end, all works are carried out in compliance with all environmental standards and legislation and Five Rivers continues to enjoy its standing as an accredited ISO14001 business.

Five Rivers offers the following services:

• Ecological land management plans
• Designs and drawings for new works
• Surveys, including river corridor and water vole surveys
• Environment Agency Flood Defence Consent Applications
• Forestry Commission Felling Licence Applications
• Natural England Protected Species Consents
• Natural England SSSI Consents

Environmental Monitoring
Monitoring is carried out for a range of purposes, clients and sectors whether as a baseline for an Ecological Impact Assessment (EIA) or to monitor the effectiveness of habitat management or a restoration scheme. Our staff have vast experience of collecting large data sets for significant infrastructure schemes and legislative drivers such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Five Rivers Environmental Contracting provide a complete suite of aquatic and riparian data collection and analysis services to monitor, survey or sample within any of the following disciplines:

• Fish Surveys
• Aquatic Macro-invertebrates
• Macrophytes
• Otter
• Water vole
• White clawed crayfish
• Non-native invasive crayfish species
• Water quality

Design and Consultancy
Five Rivers has the in-house proven expertise to assess sites and specify a sequence of management works in order to achieve a specific need. We aim to provide surveys, technical specifications and drawings in order to deliver a programme of capital and maintenance works.

Ecological Contracting Services
Five Rivers Environmental Contracting are specialists in ecological contracting including ecological mitigation works, habitat creation and habitat management. With twenty years’ experience as an ecological contractor we operate across a wide range of industries and sectors, including:

• Habitat Management
• Ecological Mitigation

Rivers and Wetland Management
River and wetland restoration projects form the bulk of Five Rivers’ work. We undertake all types of restoration on all river systems, from small tributaries to estuarine habitats. We have specialist in-house equipment and over twenty years’ experience of working in and around rivers. Wetlands are extremely important habitats within any catchment: they support a wide variety of unique flora and fauna and are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. Wetlands provide vital ecosystem services such as water purification and natural flood prevention. Services include:

• River Restoration and management
• Wetland Restoration and Wetland Creation

Riparian Landowners
Five Rivers carries out a wide variety of countryside management works. We undertake projects for individual clients on private land and estates, and projects as part of HLS Environmental Stewardship schemes. Private clients have seen considerable success in engaging us to carry out land maintenance, through design and provision of ecological maintenance programmes tailored to their individual needs.

Five Rivers offers the following gardening and landscaping services:

• Ecological habitat management programmes
• Estate and countryside management
• Pond maintenance repairs
• Riverbank repairs
• Pedestrian bridges