Wensum Wendling Beck 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…
Wensum Macrophyte Survey Revisited About 25 years ago Benoit Demars (A PhD Student from Leicester University) surveyed the River Wensum for macrophytes and phosphorus before (1999) and after (2000-2001) P-stripping at East Dereham and Fakenham WWTP. Along the whole water course, in tributaries, upstream-downstream effluents and upstream-downstream weirs. This was part of his PhD supervised…
Wendling Beck Exemplar Project The Wendling Beck Exemplar Project (WBEP) is a nature restoration project covering just under 2000 acres of farmland near Dereham, Norfolk. Landscape-scale transformation will occur through river restoration and the creation and enhancement of grasslands, woodlands, wetland and other habitats. This will not only support nature recovery in Norfolk, but will…
Wensum River Tud 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…
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.
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 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…