A team of five SAFAG members and volunteers spent a few hours yesterday slowing the flow and attenuating the surface water run off on a very hilly estate in Brailes close to the source of the Henbrook stream. This involved reinforcing and building up some of the existing natural flood management interventions that had been previously installed, digging channels to restore the the brook’s paleochannel through the natural marshland, and gully stuffing. Most of the material used to reinforce the interventions came from surrounding log fall from a copse (see below), with the kind permission of the land owners. The maintenance work should stand in good stead helping to slow Henbrook for at least a year and we were pleased to see how well previous interventions had held up. We started work in the snow and finished in the glorious sunshine with a magnificent view of the village.