Fishery Recovery Plan We have agreed a plan that has a number of milestones to insure any future fish stocks can retain a path to sustain themselves. This is being managed within the Ecology Group. Headline Story Below is a listing of related posts and articles on this topic.
Below is the newsletter issued in March 2023. Click to download the file
River Wensum Water Quality Analysis 2000-2022 Richard Cooper at the UEA undertook a review of 20 years of data gained from the EA on the Wensum.. This was presented to the WCP back in January 2023. Click on the PDF logo to open the file.
Foulsham Restration Start Sep-2022 End Feb-23 Norfolk Rivers Trust, the Water Management Alliance (IDB), and a private landowner completed a six-week project in the Foulsham tributary in January 2023. This EA-funded project aimed to deliver natural flood management solutions within the Wensum Catchment. The project reconnected the tributary to its floodplain by diverting an existing…
Wensum Headwaters Project This overall £7 million project is funded by Ofwat and is led by The Rivers Trust and United Utilities, with collaboration between 24+ UK partner organisations. It is creating a radical step-change in the contribution of Citizen Science & Community Monitoring to evidence-based Integrated Catchment Management. CaSTCo will provide the…
Wensum Citizen Science Project 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…
Breach finally closed The breach was finally closed after nearly 24 months flowing via land and the IDB ditch bye passing Bintree Mill Clearly some lessons have to be learnt from this and the time taking to address this.
Wensum River Fly Monitoring The Riverfly monitoring scheme has been run in some locations for many years, these at places like Bintree Mill and Norfolk Flyfishers at Swanton Morley. Following a national survey undertaken by the then Salmon and Trust Association back in 2019, the Wensum was deemed to be effectively dead in terms of…
Wensum Water Quality Volunteers Workshop July 2022 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 …
What’s happening to the River Wensum Roach? A team of scientists are carrying a comprehensive investigation in to the health of Wensum Roach. Kelvin caught up with the lead scientist on the Riverbank and what he has to say is worrying Investigation into Wensum Roach