23.07.07
ECL helping to reconnect Wales
Ebbw Vale is in line for an upgraded rail network and Ecology Consultancy is the company providing vital ecological expertise.
Ecology Consultancy Ltd (ECL) is a specialist consultancy with a team of ecologists with extensive rail industry experience and all the necessary safety and trackside training. One of their current projects is the Ebbw Vale Railway Programme*, with contractors Amey, in association with Capita Symonds and the Countryside Council for Wales.
ECL’s expertise makes them essential to a project that will reopen a former freight railway line, connect passenger services between Ebbw Vale, Newport and Cardiff, and introduce six new stations to the network. Their initial contribution focused mainly on protected species work, including a programme of reptile surveys which also involved moving them temporarily to a safer site. The range of protected species found on the site has meant that ECL’s ecologists have been kept busy with related surveys and mitigation work and they have been able to provide a watching brief over construction activities. As this major construction project develops, they will continue to work closely with the contractors to minimise its ecological impacts.
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