Research and analysis

River habitat survey guidance manual

How to do river habitat surveys to assess rivers and streams.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 1 January 2013
• Last updated: 5 August 2022
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  1. 5 August 2022

     The river habitat survey manual has been reprinted, so added an updated PDF to reflect this version. As part of this update we've corrected the definition of fords in Figure D1 in 'Part three - detailed guidance and definitions'. And we've updated some photographs in 'Part four - photo gallery'.

  2. 12 October 2017

     Hard copies of this document are out of print.

  3. 1 January 2013

     First published.

Documents

How to do river habitat surveys

Ref: LIT 1758

PDF, 13.7 MB, 172 pages

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River habitat surveys characterise and assess the features of freshwater rivers and streams.

This document shows you how to do the survey. It includes pictures so the file size is large and may be slow to download.

For more information about this publication please contact the Environment Agency.