Wilder Wenhaston River Group

Monitoring of Blyth River, group led by Wil Harvey.

The Wilder Wenhaston River Group has been monitoring chemical and bacterial pollution in the Blyth and its tributaries since 2023. Our findings show significant pollution. Our 2024 report is here:

To help restore and maintain a healthy river, we need to understand the impact of this pollution on the Blyth’s ecology, and relate a (hopeful) reduction in pollution to beneficial changes in the river’s health. For over one year we assembled a team to survey and monitor the ecological status – or ‘health’ – of the river Blyth and tributaries at regular intervals. The result was the 2023-24 repot

Please let me know (harveys@care4free.net) if you would like to know more, and if you have any specific area(s) of interest

January 2024 – Meeting Blyth Water Monitoring

Welcome & Aims of meeting                                             

Wil Harvey

Wilder Wenhaston – background                                     

Michael Gower

wilder Wenhaston River Group – the story so far         

Wil Harvey

Chemical pollution in the Blyth                                          

Roger Claxton

Blyth Farm Cluster                                                              

Richard Symes

Surveying the river: EA/Riverfly Citizen Science     

John Findlay

https://theriverstrust.org/our-work/our-projects/castco-catchment-systems-thinking-cooperative

CastCo creating a radical step-change in the contribution of Citizen Science & Community Monitoring to evidence-based Integrated Catchment Management.

Wensum project
https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/our-people/our-team/steve-lane
https://norfolkriverstrust.org/project/wensum-citizen-science/

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