Monthly Archives: December 2012

Tideway Times – Winter 2012

Tideway Times is a quarterly newsletter featuring the latest news and events on the London Tideway Improvements, which includes the proposed Thames Tideway Tunnel, the Lee Tunnel and Sewage Works Upgrades. http://www.thameswater.co.uk/tw/common/downloads/aboutus-projects-tidal-thames/tideway-times-winter-December-2012.pdf

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Environment Agency criticised over Hydropower schemes

The Environment Agency has come in for severe criticism this week for failing to uphold its duties to ‘to maintain, improve and develop fisheries’ and to ‘consider and give due weight to fisheries’ when granting impoundment licences associated with hydropower … Continue reading

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EA Briefing note on the River Crane Pollution

Environment Agency Update on River Crane pollution incident  – December 2012 The River Crane is an important river for West London. Not only does it provide a valuable green corridor for wildlife, it also gives local people a rare opportunity … Continue reading

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The ZSL’s ‘Citizen Science’ European Eel monitoring Report 2012

The Zoological Society of London’s Citizen Science, European Eel monitoring project Report for 2012 Executive Summary Over the past 30 years it has become apparent that European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) recruitment into European rivers has declined rapidly and despite the … Continue reading

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Chalkstream Charter to follow summit in Hampshire

Over 100 of the top figures in English fly-fishing packed into a special summit called to discuss the plight of our chalkstreams at the Grosvenor Hotel in Stockbridge this week. Of these unique rivers, 85% are situated in England and … Continue reading

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Water reports shows 6th month of above average rainfall

The Environment Agency Water situation report for November 2012 shows it was the 6th consecutive month of above average rainfall for the South East Region. Flows and groundwater levels responded to rainfall on already saturated catchments and forty flood warnings … Continue reading

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Thames Area Fisheries get welcome boost to stocks

Rivers and a Stillwater in the Thames region have received a welcome boost after the Environment Agency fisheries team stocked 15,000 juvenile fish over a three-day period.   The fish which included Barbel, Chub, Dace, Roach, Rudd and Tench came … Continue reading

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Sustainable drainage and the ‘Supersewer’

Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s Director of External Affairs and Sustainability, explains in Thames Estuary Partnership’s magazine ‘Talk of the Thames’ why the proposed Thames Tideway Tunnel and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) each have a vital role to play in … Continue reading

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Environment Agency prepares Canal fish rescue

Thousands of fish washed out of the Tiverton Canal and into a flooded field following the collapse of a section of canal bank are about to be returned to their former home thanks to a major fish rescue organised by … Continue reading

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