3 July 2024
With biodiversity and improved habitats for wildlife high on the national agenda, we’re pleased to share how one of our latest projects has helped reintegrate water voles into the River Idle, Nottinghamshire.
Our Geomatics team was commissioned by The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust (NWT) to undertake a topographical survey on land off Rectory Lane in the village of Granston. With the area prone to flooding, the land had been rendered unusable and the landowner sought to transform it by establishing a new habitat for water voles. The project also aimed to mitigate flooding on adjacent farmland and promote further wildlife growth.
The wet and boggy terrain presented a challenge, so to capture the necessary data our survey team used a combination of a robotic total station and an NRTK GNSS rover, powered by Leica Geosystems. This allowed all the data to be collected with confidence and reliability whilst safely mitigating the issues presented by the environment that would otherwise hinder data collection.
The data from both tools was processed, merged and refined to produce the final topographical survey's digital terrain model that will be essential for the redevelopment of the area.
Gary Cragg, water vole recovery project manager at NWT said: “I was happy with the experience we had with MEC Consulting Group, from initial quote to the survey and report production. It has helped us in the planning phase of one of our pond and habitat creation projects within the Nottinghamshire Water Vole Recovery Project.”
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