JPR Environmental

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Harnessing the Sunshine

With plenty of sunshine over the past few weeks, it's been the perfect opportunity to harness renewable energy to power our welfare facilities.

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Truxor Turns Heads at Egypt Mill

With only a handful of these specialist machines operating in the UK, it's not something many people get the opportunity to see up close.

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Every Step, More Sustainable

Building a better environment means building it better.

Biodiversity JPR Nature Wetlands

The Bark Side of the Force

We were delighted to welcome the Wessex Water great crested newt detection team to our Somerset Levels Wetland Creation site.

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Somerset Levels & Moors Wetland Creation

We are proud to have been appointed as Principal Contractor by YTL, on behalf of Wessex Water, to deliver a pioneering wetland creation scheme in the Somerset Levels.

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Clearing the way: Ditch clearance for improved site drainage

Sometimes the solution to drainage problems is getting back to basics, and that's exactly what the JPR team has been doing on a recent business park where vegetation overgrowth was causing narrowing of the channel and a reduction in water holding capacity.

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Making a splash: Nature pond creation

The JPR team has been continuing work on a housing development in South Bristol with the creation of a nature pond.

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To flow, or not to flow

That is the question. Okay, we’re not going Shakespearean or Danish on you, don’t worry. It’s more a comparison of two different approaches to peatland restoration. We’ve got a few projects ongoing at the moment, and for this blog, we’re focusing on two; one in Dorset and the other in Somerset.

JPR Reed Beds

Reed bed project takes off

This month, JPR’s team has completed work on a reed bed construction – the Dakota project; a name with some historical relevance…

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Eat, sleep, restore, re-peat

Autumn this year will see the JPR team back in their wellies and heading south to start work on some peatland restoration projects in Somerset and Dorset.

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No such thing as a free lunch

The JPR team has been busy working at a Primary school in Somerset rehoming badgers that had taken up residence underneath some temporary cabins, benefitting from ‘free school meals’ and complicating renovation works.

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Safety first

Training is an ongoing cycle and as part of this commitment, we recently sent six members of our team on a two-day Level 2 Inland Waterside Safety and Rescue course