First Sewage Outfall.
Down through the rest of Adam Henson's farm we found some lovely stretches of water and a wildlife haven. A riverfly survey gave very...
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Apr 2, 2019
Windrush reborn
After the lakes, the river falls free from the last sluice in the series and starts snaking through the valley. Clear water and a...
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Mar 31, 2019
Temple Guiting Lakes
At Temple Guiting, the Windrush flows through a series of lakes and ponds which we believe were dug out in the 1950s. Years of silt has...
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Mar 25, 2019
Clean enough to drink.
On the way down through Cutsdean we a saw a pump house and filter on the stream - it seems a bit of an overstatement to call it a river...
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Mar 24, 2019
Otter poo?
Saturday saw us heading from Ford to Temple Guiting where the river starts to change again and gets a hard gravel bed and larger stones....
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Mar 19, 2019
Testing for sewage
As we make our way from the Windrush source to the Thames we are going to be taking water samples for scientists at the Centre for...
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Mar 18, 2019
The first shade of foam.
At least fifty to follow, we think. As the river flows down through the beautifully relaxed farm land passing Taddington a couple of...
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Mar 17, 2019
An owl and a dog.
As we scrambled into the field at Dirty Bridge, we saw a lot of silt that had run off from the track and into the river. and it looked...
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Mar 16, 2019
Windrush walk - day one
The source of the Windrush! A clear spring running out of a pipe and into a pond in Gloucestershire, described in the 1946 book, The...
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Mar 11, 2019
Windrush Walk - the slow way
On Saturday 16th March, Windrush Against Sewage Pollution team members will start a walk down the Windrush from its source at Field Barn...
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