Revegetating Engineered Banks on the Camphersdrift River

Confluent Environmental was appointed to undertake revegetation of engineered riverbanks along extensive sections of the Camphersdrift River in George, South Africa.

Originally a channelled valley-bottom wetland with significant peat deposits, the Camphersdrift Wetland has begun to function more as a river with a structured riparian zone. This is due to high intensity flooding events coupled with impacts of urbanisation.

Unfortunately, a 1:150-year rainfall event in November 2021 resulted in significant erosion of peat and washed away large sections of the channel banks, rendering residential property and a municipal pipeline at risk of failure if the banks were not stabilised.