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Sunset, #Dixton #wye

Sunset #monmouth #wye

#Monmouth looking beautiful in the evening sun.

First of the season. It looks like it’ll be a good #blackberry year

A beautiful evening in #monmouth

Wyebridge, #Monmouth. It’s hot!

Different angle, same location, today and June 2018. The crowfoot is dying, the water is slow moving, warm and smelly. It is full of tiny fish though, so it’s not all bad! #wye #wyevalley #monmouth

The Wyebridge cygnets have hatched. Only two, but they seem to be thriving. #monmouth #swans #wye

@ChancerOnABike @GeorgeMonbiot @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye It’s always green/brown now.

The #Wye now and the same view on the same date in 2015

@ukslim @JamesWallis @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye You’re quite right; snapshots don’t demonstrate it, but the problems have been well documented and studied for some years.

@hadnock @JamesWallis @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye The Avon in Warwick, which I walk across every day, can go from clear to brown and back to clear all within a week. Awful things might be happening to the Wye, but these snapshots don't demonstrate it.

@SurreyPalmsWX True, to a small extent, but it's mostly due to well-documented algal bloom caused by pollution in the river. It's been like this throughout the spring and summer. I'll get more pictures.

@hadnock I'm not discounting the fact that sewage has been emptied into it, but those photos were clearly taken after a rainfall, when the waters were disturbed and had been exposed to other runoff. As opposed to when it was settled. Still shocking to see, nonetheless. We can do better.

@Ian_norvic @Feiryred @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye You are right, there's some mud of late, but it's been like this for months. It's even worse with the shallow, warm water making the algae grow, which is now killing the water crowfoot. I'll get more pictures.

@Feiryred @hadnock @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Thank you for the clarification. It is worth asking, especially on social media.

@SharpeShirley @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye It's mostly algal bloom. I'll get more pictures; it's even worse close up.

@hadnock @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye It did bucket down yesterday so you'd expect it to be muddy

@jeanienettekin @Beany_1 @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye From Wyebridge, Monmouth

@CliveFlint @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye There's some mud in it, but it's been a murky green/brown throughout the spring and exacerbated by the dry, hot summer.

@hadnock @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Was the first photo taken after rain? A lot of rivers change when run off off the hills upstream is washed down.

@caldiglaws @barbaraanneken1 @NigelOAP @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye I'll get some better pictures in the coming days to show you just how bad it is, even though, yes, there's some mud in it as well.

@barbaraanneken1 @hadnock @NigelOAP @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Buriton immune from heavy rain taking topsoil ect into it especially after a long dry spell. I do not dispute that the river is not as clean as it was before the Brexit vote but a photo after heavy rain is not a fair comparison.

Even though, yes, there's some mud washed into the River Wye from the land, the issues are far worse than that. For anyone wondering what the problem is, then this is useful from @SaveTheWye savethewye.org/the-state-of-t…

@JWillson1 @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Phosphates, nitrates from chicken derived fertiliser on the fields.

@hadnock @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Caused by???

@otmj80 @A_Rejoinder @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye True but it’s been murky throughout the hot weather due to algal bloom

@hadnock @A_Rejoinder @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Surely some of the current murk is caused by the runoff from the heavy rain we’ve had over the last few days?

@JWillson1 @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Algal bloom mostly

@hadnock @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @SaveTheWye Primarily farm run off? poultry? With a good dash of sewage? This image is so depressing