A group of +1000 residents dedicated to the restoration of the Upper Weaver from Church Minshull to the headwaters in the Bickerton Hills
Nantwich, England
Joined January 2024
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RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
@CommonsEAC last week - good to hear road runoff pollution come up. This source of toxic chemicals entering rivers has gone under the radar for too long.
Read @CIWEM recent report shining a light on this issue: ciwem.org/news/ciwem-report-…
@DefraGovUK @DefraWater @DfT
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Tomorrow is #WFMD24 World Fish Migration Day- a global celebration to raise awareness of the importance of free-flowing rivers and migratory fish 🐟🐟🐟
Here Peter our CEO talks about the impacts of weirs and barriers to fish migration on the Dee
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RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Unfortunately could not make the @TheRiverSummit. This is what our rivers should look like underwater. Full of life & thriving, sadly they are way of that mark. Habitat loss, and pollution has taken it's toll, don't be fooled that today's rivers are the new natural.
#Rivers
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
So many people would simply see this as an eroding cliff that needs attention...
At worse this "attention" would be stone or concrete, at best bioengineering...but eroding cliffs are an increasingly rare habitat, and source of valuable riverine substrate (e.g. spawning habitat).
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
"Having so many barriers effectively creates a network of small dams or lakes, which offer plants and animals very different habitats from those found in free-flowing rivers, and are often not appropriate for river species." theguardian.com/environment/…
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
🚨 We’re introducing a whistleblowing portal to make it easier for water company workers to safely report wrongdoing they’ve witnessed at work.
Reports will be treated in confidence and we may use findings to support our enforcement work.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/whist…
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Last week, there were at least 3 slurry-based pollution incidents in Wales. Each one would have been devastating to the wildlife living in the river.
An essential question for Welsh rivers:
What is slurry, and how do we stop it from getting into rivers?
Here is a 🧵.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
8 Weaver Gowy partners & local volunteers out on the river today to Clean up the Weaver! Removing floating pennywort an invasive non native, rubbish & kick sampling. Better together! @AnglingTrust @paddle_uk @EnvAgencyNW @uugroupplc @CRTNorthWest @MerseyRivers @GroundworkCLM
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Click here - t.ly/HZmus - to view the WyeViz open source app. We need your support, find out how you can help us on our website and follow for more updates - t.ly/op8uG
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#cpreherefordshire #wyeviz #riverwye #herefordshire
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Huge thanks to special guest speakers & new members of the Catchment partnership @RestoreWeaver for joining us in #Nantwich today to discuss & build collaboration for natures recovery along our waterways - We’re blessed to have your eyes, ears and expertise on the ground! 😀👀🐟
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
In the small print of the latest Defra Environmental Land Management additions, new generous payments for farmers to establish ribbon wetlands along watercourses on their land. This is huge, because riparian buffers make the best nature corridors, as well as helping dramatically to reduce both flooding and drought - and even more so when they have beavers managing them instead of people. gov.uk/government/publicatio…
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Find out how we prosecuted @stwater for a ‘reckless’ pollution of the River Trent near #StokeOnTrent
They were fined £2m after 260m litres of illegal sewage flowed away.
gov.uk/government/news/sever…
ALT The River Trent at the Strongford Wastewater Treatment works near Stoke where a pollution incident saw some 260 million litres of illegal raw sewage discharged.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
£2 million.
This is the amount Severn Trent Water have been fined for ‘recklessly’ discharging almost 260 million litres of raw sewage into the River Trent.
We welcome this sentence and will continue to take tough action against companies that breach environmental rules.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
This timelapse is of one of our recent weir removals, showing the river habitat changes that come from the removal of impounding structures.
As it is #WeirRemovalWeek, we thought it would be useful to share why we carry out weir removals westwalesriverstrust.org/202…
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Soil Health = River health.
All our rivers start in the Sky as rainfall; the vast majority of rain runs through or over the ground before it enters a brook or river.
The type and health of the soil on the ground impacts how quickly and cleanly the water enters a river.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Sadly I have come across many stores that are leaking and causing pollution. That combined with clean water drains on farmyards would be a significant proportion of ag pollution.
The problem is that it all costs so much money to fix and many farms just can't afford it.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Slurry sprayed on village streets and buildings bbc.in/48pQSes
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
NANTWICH: Campaigners' fury as farm workers filmed in Audlem washing slurry down drains as @EnvAgencyNW probe latest pollution incident thenantwichnews.co.uk/2024/0…
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
1/3 Our officers are on site today investigating a suspected pollution incident near the River Weaver, Nantwich.
After careful consideration we are disappointed to cancel the planned fish stocking of the River Weaver at this time due to the suspected pollution.
RestoreTheWeaver retweeted
Such a great photo demonstration.
Bare soil = soil erosion
Green growing crop = no soil erosion
A good demonstration of the power (and importance) of roots in this late strip-tilled winter wheat. The tram line is cultivated but no seed sown, so no roots to hold the #soil. Add the wettest UK winter in living memory and 'Hey Presto', you get a tram line gorge...
#soilerosion
