RiverWood Ecology

Services

RiverWood Ecology Ltd. are specialists in freshwater ecological monitoring, survey and analysis. We operate throughout a range of industries and can design bespoke monitoring programmes to meet your aquatic surveying needs.

Freshwater Ecology
- Macroinvertebrates
  
  Kick/Surber/Dredge
  BMWP/WHPT, CCI/LIFE/PSI/LQI/AWiC, RICT
- Fisheries
  
  Electricfishing, Habitat Creation, Fish Kill Response, Community Surveys.
- Macrophytes
  
  Vascular and Bryophytes, RMNI/MTR/CSM/WFD, LEAFPACS2 and DARLEQ2.
- Pollution Response
  
  Fish Kills, Immediate Call-Out, Integrated Macroinvertebrate & WQ Monitoring.
Water Quality
- Pollution Response
  
  Fish Kills, Immediate Call-Out, Integrated Macroinvertebrate & WQ Monitoring.
- Catchment Walkovers
  
  Diffuse & Point Source Pollution Monitoring, Wet-Weather Sampling
- Effluents and Discharge Monitoring
  
  EPR Consent Monitoring, In-Situ & Real-Time Sampling.
- Water Quality Monitoring
  
  Rivers/Ponds/Lakes, In-situ, Physical & Automated Sampling.

Recent Projects

A selection of the most recent projects we have been instructed to work on.

Regulatory Macroinvertebrate Analysis

RiverWood Ecology Ltd. were instructed to analyse a number of freshwater macroinvertebrate samples for the Environment Agency’s EcoSF2 contract for a number of regions across the UK.

River Nar Restoration

RiverWood Ecology Ltd. were instructed to analyse freshwater macroinvertebrate samples for pre and post restorations works on the River Nar, Norfolk. Samples were analysed to WFD mixed taxon/species level (TL5) and standard indices data provided.

Derailment Post-Pollution Investigation

RiverWood Ecology Ltd. were called to respond to the Glenfinnan derailment and provide freshwater macroinvertebrate sampling, analysis and reporting services.

Macroinvertebrates

Water Quality

Pollution Response

Macrophytes

Freshwater Ecology

Water Quality

Regulatory Macroinvertebrate Analysis

River Nar Restoration

Derailment Post-Pollution Investigation