Items Of Interest
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Just in case anyone missed or couldn't make these online events. Here are the YouTube links to the presentations.
American Signal Crayfish: A Losing Battle? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deXEbJFH7KI
SmartRivers: Using Freshwater Invertebrates to Monitor River Health - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPft5AI6gM
LFCC Meeting Minutes - September 2023
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The minutes of the LFCC meeting held on the 28th September 2023 ar4e now available in the downloads section of the website under the section - LFCC Documents/Meeting Minutes, or by clicking the link below. Thank you to all of those who attended and to the speakers and their presentations.
Project Groundwater
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Project Groundwater supports communities to be more resilient to groundwater flooding.
The six-year programme is working with communities in 9 high-risk flood areas of the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs. It is led by Buckinghamshire Council in partnership with five other local authorities and Flood Community Groups. This project does not currently operate in the Loddon Catchment but there may be useful information for some.
This project is funded by Defra as part of the £200 million Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation programme which is managed by the Environment Agency. The programmes will drive innovation in flood and coastal resilience and adaptation to a changing climate.
The Project Groundwater website and further information can be found at the link below:
Fleet Pond Algal Blooms.
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Fleet Pond is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Hampshire's largest freshwater lake. A major partnership project 10 years ago successfully improved some key elements of the lake's water quality, but it continues to suffer serious algal blooms. This short video looks at the most common cause of algal blooms - over enrichment of lake water with nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus and the role of urban runoff and drain misconnections entering the Brookly Stream - one of the two inflow streams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7pRu7f7Ms
Prompt reporting of suspected sewage or wastewater pollutions of the stream will help reduce damage to the environment. Thames Water's emergency number is 0800 316 9800
LFCC Meeting September 2023
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The meeting agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Loddon Fisheries & Conservation Consultative is now available for download at the link below. The meeting is scheduled for the 28th September 2023.
With the uptake by some clubs within the Loddon catchment, of the Angling Trusts Water Quality Monitoring Network, the LFCC will be providing a tank of water taken from the River Blackwater at Swallowfield. Anyone with a WQMN kit is welcome to bring them along and test the sample which would provide accuracy comparisons across individual kits and a chance to discuss methods etc undertaken by those doing the testing. We have also been offered a chance to have some of the same water tested at a laboratory with more specialized equipment by someone within the water industry. So this could be a chance to see if the data we are recording for the AT is accurate.
There may be a possibility that some one within your club is testing for the WQMN but does not attend any LFCC meetings, so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, could you pass a message on about this.
The link to the agenda can be found here: https://www.lfcc.org.uk/downloads/20-lfcc-documents/9-agenda?download=249:lfcc-meeting-agenda-sept-23
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