Wide view of a river reach with the crew working along a protected bank

From the field

Photographs fromthe working face.

Site records from live projects in Assam — bank profiling, bamboo piling, stone pitching, plant at work and the crews who do it.

Field crew working a riverbank at sunset, guiding a fill line into the water — Riverbank works at last light — project site, Assam

Supervisor and workers moving bamboo poles down a river bank — Bamboo poles carried down to the working face

Project team and villagers standing on a bank looking over the works area — Site walk with the community before works begin

Workers driving a line of bamboo piles into a shallow channel — Bamboo piling in a live channel

Stone pitching laid along the curve of a river bank — Pitched slope following the bank line

Four members of the site team standing together beside the river — Site team at the start of a working day

Hydraulic excavator working on a river bank formation — Excavator trimming a bank to designed slope

Workers in shallow water beside a swollen river channel — Working the shallows against a rising channel

Close view of placed boulders forming a revetment surface — Armour layer, placed in bond

River bend with a protected bank and open country beyond — Downstream of the protected reach

Crew standing in shallow water handling a fill line — Fill line handled by hand in the shallows

Excavator placing stone with the site crew looking on — Stone placed to formation level

Wide view of a river reach with the crew working along a protected bank — A protected reach, seen from the upstream end

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