Please see the attached minutes and actions from the meeting 22nd May 20223 Ecology Group Meeting Notes and Actions Wensum Working Group Presentation Wensum Ecology Group Action Plan Riverfly Update 26-June-23
We are pleased to publish the first Wensum Catchment Partnership Newsletter, These will be published every six months featuring the both the ambition and outcomes as we build collaboration with partners in the Wensum Valley.
Please see the attached minutes and actions from the meeting 20th Feb 20232 Ecolgly Group Meeting Notes and Actions. Wensum Working Group Presentation Morphology Group Presentation Really interesting video below produced by the The Guardian, which touches on the presentation from the EA. Why rivers shouldn't look like this – It's Complicated
Suspension of Otter Spraint CollectionWe have been advised by DEFRA to suspend the collection of Otter Spraint until a formal risk assessment is carried out by Nottingham University.. This is due to the potential mutation of avian influenza and cross over to mammals including Otters. Following further discussions with the University team today, only people…
Please see the attached minutes and actions from the meeting 21st Nov 2022 Wensum Working Group Presentation ecology group meeting 21-Npv-2022 final Ecology Working Group Action Plan 2022 Dec update
Back in Sep 2021 we learn about a bank breach on the river between Quest and Bintree. This first occurred as far back as November 2020, when we had the deluge of rainfall and much of the Wensum flood plain flooded. However this isn’t the floodplain working as designed, but a breach of the Main…
Please see the attached minutes and actions from the meeting 26th Sep 2022 Wensum Working Group Presentation 26-Sep-22 ecology group meeting 26 9 2022 final Ecology Working Group Action Plan 2022 sept update
Steve Lane has produced this paper based on a program funded by the Water For Tomorrow project. It defines the scope, needs and techniques for implement a catchment scale citizen science water quality monitoring solution for the River Wensum. Wensum Water for Tomorrow: Wensum Citizen Science Feasibility Assessment Report – Final V3.1 is below.
Another engagement of volunteers on what was the hottest day of the summer undertaking in a scheme coordinated by Norfolk County Councils Non-Native Species Initiative in the management of Himalayan Balsam on the Wensum. This was some of the outcome of their efforts of the team from WACA at Sayers Meadow in Lyng. Great work…
Introducing an amazing group of local #CitizenScience volunteers who’re working on a #waterquality monitoring project on the #RiverWensum headwaters, on behalf of the Wensum Catchment Partnership These local residents learnt about the science and techniques they will be using at upto 15 strategic locations acorss the Wensum Headwaters from Whissonsett, Tattersett, East Rudham to its…