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Basins and ponds

Floodplain restoration and management

Re-meandering

Stream bed re-naturalization

Restoration and reconnection of seasonal streams

Reconnection of oxbow lakes and similar features

Riverbed material renaturalization

Removal of dams and other longitudinal barriers

Natural bank stabilisation

Elimination of riverbank protection

Lake restoration

Restoration of natural infiltration to groundwater

Continuous cover forestry

'Water sensitive' driving

Appropriate design of roads and stream crossings

Sediment capture ponds

Coarse woody debris

Peak flow control structures

Re-naturalisation of polder areas

Overland flow areas in peatland forests