Water company to pay £350,000 to charity following pollution incident
An Enforcement Undertaking (EU) has led to South West Water (SWW) offering to pay us £350,000 to help a Devon river recover from serious pollution that wiped out the local fish population.This payment has been accepted by the Environment Agency as an alternative to...
Survey reveals high levels of satisfaction with multi-award-winning Upstream Thinking project
We continue to work with South West Water (SWW) to deliver the second phase of the Upstream Thinking (UST) initiative, running from 2015 to 2020. According to recent research, 94% of surveyed farmers are pleased SWW is getting involved in helping them explore how to...
New £1m project – Connecting the Culm
Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is embarking on a new project to find natural solutions to some of the issues facing the River Culm and its catchment, and we are a part of it.This new initiative called Connecting the Culm is part of Co-Adapt,...
Casting an eye on river health
Our head of fisheries and river management Bruce Stockley talks about fishing in relation to the environment. It’s an obvious fact that country sports need the natural environment to function, but does the environment need country sports? In these times of...