To allow the construction works to take place a temporary dam has to be put in the river adjacent to the site - this is known as a coffer dam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam#Cofferdams) and is common in construction to exclude water from an area that is normally submerged. In the pictures below we have two views of our coffer dam which also has a temporary syphon in place (old technology is always better) to remove any water that does find its way through - the black pipe in the close-up picture is the United Utilties storm pipe that had to be re-sited.
View of the coffer dam from Church Road bridge. 
Yvette (from WRE Ltd) trundles off carefully to move more soil
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