River Beane

From chalkstreams on Instagram: Levelling up chalk streams: The government has agreed to undertake to provide protection for chalk streams in the Levelling Up Bill. Full post at instagram.com/p/Cu4wnS0tNfO/…

The RBRA will be at this year’s Watton church fete. Come along and hear why we need volunteers to tackle invasive weeds on the river, and see close up some of the fascinating bugs and fish that we find in our monthly Riverfly samples along the river. Something for all ages.

Large areas of Invasive Himalayan Balsam are found in a couple of sites on the River Beane. We’ll be running volunteer sessions in a few weeks time to tackle these – watch out for more details soon! #INNSweek riverbeane.org.uk

The environment agency have issued a flood alert for the River Beane catchment check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/06…

Our spring newsletter is now available on our website at riverbeane.org.uk/category/newsl…

Sewage dumped into 31 of London's rivers for 7,000 hours last year. The grim reality of government's sewage policy laid bare. standard.co.uk/news/london/se…

What a contrast. Paris spends €1bn to clean up the Seine so people can go swimming in it while last year alone @thameswater spent 7,000 hours dumping sewage into 31 of London's rivers all of which ends up in the Thames. Ho hum.

It lives most of its life as a larva buried in the silty stream bed before turning into an adult and swimming up stream to spawn - its last act before it dies.’ from the Woodland Trust.

‘Reclusive, primitive and eel-like, the brook lamprey is an ancient and rarely seen fish found in the rivers and streams of several of our woods.

These two brook lamprey were an exciting discovery during a recent water vole survey on the Beane. You can see them piling up stones to lay their eggs.

It’s ‘Beane’ a while since Hertfordshire’s River Beane #chalkstream looked like this! Horseshoe Weir and Waterford Marsh, north of Hertford. Recent works have reconnected the floodplain - and worked. @RiverBeane @farmcluster @Feargal_Sharkey @AquiferChalk

The environment Agency has issued a flood alert for the River Beane catchment. check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/06…

Today is International Day Of Action For Rivers. There are no specific events for the River Beane, but we continue to campaign for chalk streams and cooperate with Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust on projects to improve the river.

The source of the Wensum West Rudham🧐what’s disturbing is the spring fed pond is now dry & the photo with water was taken 11 November 2022 The drought is going to result in the death of our little Chalk streams @EnvAgencyAnglia @AnglianWater 🙏REDUCE ABSTRACTION @AquiferChalk

💚 It's #ValentinesDay & we want to #ShowTheLove for the things we want to protect from the impacts of climate change. In Hertfordshire we have over 10% of the world's chalk streams - as rare & vital as rainforests, supporting some of our most endangered species. @TheCCoalition

Lib Dems have tabled an amendment to the retained EU law bill, to protect two key pieces of water quality legislation bills.parliament.uk/bills/3340 #waterpollution #CleanItUp

Farmer Cluster meeting tonight at 6pm at the Rising Sun pub near Weston. Open to all farmers in the River Beane catchment. Food and drink available. DM this account if you'd like to attend. 20+ Already booked on but room for a few more.

The River Chess is a chalk stream 1 of only 225 in the entire world and this is how water companies treat them. And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

📢 Rivers Officer Job Vacancy The Rivers Officer will support and develop the River Lea Catchment Partnerships, as well as collaboratively devising and co-ordinating citizen science initiatives. Find out more and apply here: ow.ly/rCyx50MJxAN

We remain deeply concerned about the state of the nation's rivers. The @EnvAgency needs the financial tools to do the job, but as @BylineTimes reported last month, its budget has been reduced to such an extent it can no longer effectively respond to the challenges.