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May 3, 2019

Watercress treatment!

The Windrush rolls down from Naunton and although most of the ranunculus disappears, the invertebrate life is very good and turning over...

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Apr 26, 2019

Phosphate pollution

According to Earthwatch which runs the Thames Water Blitz coming up again this weekend, phosphate levels between 0.05 milligrammes per...

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Apr 18, 2019

Naunton Sewage Works

Moving down through the village the river skirts the back of a few houses and follows a course carved by man, many years ago, away from...

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Apr 12, 2019

The fish have arrived!

At last, even though we have walked along some good looking river and found good invertebrate life at the lower end of the food chain, we...

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Apr 9, 2019

How can this?

Handle this? So here we are at our first proper sewage treatment works. A very small one that serves the Guiting Power area but even here...

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Apr 7, 2019

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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