Reconnecting the Polgooth Stream
The Polgooth stream is the largest tributary of the St Austell River, known locally as the White River, and rises near Trewoon, a small village to the west of St Austell. Like many of the streams and rivers that rise in the St Austell and mid-Cornwall area, it has...
Brook Stream: Morphology for Mitigation
This culvert on Brook Stream, a small tributary of the River Yealm, was identified in partnership with the Environment Agency as a low cost, quick-win, site for improvement work under the South Hams River Improvement Project (SHRImP). Due to the morphology of the...
Ministerial Visit
On Monday this week, WRT was very pleased to have the opportunity to host a meeting with Dan Rogerson MP (Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and representatives from DEFRA, the Environment Agency, the Rivers Trust and South West Water. Comment from our...
Fighting an Alien Invasion
As part of the South Hams River Improvement Project (SHRImP), the Trust has funding available to carry out coppicing works along river banks in the South Hams to improve the light regime to match requirements for fish across their in-stream habitats. Typically, these...
Assessing storm damage to an eel pass
This week, staff from WRT carried out a rescue mission to retrieve a RAM pump for an eel pass which had become damaged and displaced in the recent high flows. The RAM pump had been installed in association with an eel pass on a weir sluice gate. The pump provides a...
Could Salmon be returning to the River Par in Cornwall?
An adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has been found by the Environment Agency on the river Par, which is thought to be the first adult salmon recorded on the river in recent times. A few juvenile salmon have been found in the river during more recent fisheries...