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- Only rain goes down the drain: a River Lea Education Project
- Luton Lea Catchment Partnership launched in Wardown Park
- A new look for Luton’s Leagrave Park
- Locals have built path to employment in Luton park
- Help create a new path in Leagrave Park
- Wild flowers sown in Wardown Park
- Celebration event at Source of River Lea
- Wardown Lake Suspension Bridge reopens
- Wardown Park Museum Redevelopment
- Riverside orchard planted by volunteers
- Volunteers create community allotment at Riverside Park
- Source of River Lea to be cleared
- Poetry and photography with Rivers and Wagtails
- Bags of Help at hand: funding for projects
- Students' River Lea creations on show at The Hat Factory
- Take part in the Thames Water Blitz
- River Lea featured in University of Bedfordshire graduate show
- Greening Up draws to a close
- Updates from Houghton Brook
- Junior River Wardens launched
- Free education resources for the River Lea in Luton and Central Bedfordshire
- Volunteers give Leagrave Park a boost
- Take a LEAsureley trip along your river
- Give your lunch break a lift with a local walk
- Give your feedback on proposed Manor Park improvements
- Local artist pays tribute to River Lea
- Volunteers needed to help Luton save water
- Catchment Partnership tours East Hyde sewage treatment works
- The Big Count event is coming
- Schools in Luton and Houghton Regis monitor the River Lea
- River morphology project begins at Manor Road Park, Luton
- Water Saving Week - What can you do at work and home?
- Project completed – Manor Road Park, River Lea Restoration Project
- Wanted! Your views on the future of the River Basin
- Luton residents attend reopening of Manor Road Park
- Project planned – Green Skills, Cowslip Meadow
- Improvements to be made at Leagrave Marsh
- River Lea on BBC River Walks
- Junior River Wardens returns in 2019
- Houghton Brook consultation
- Love Water campaign launch
- DEFRA Consultation - Reducing Personal Water Use - please respond!
- Environmental Drought in Hertfordshire and North London
- Exciting works beginning at The Moor
- Thesis due for release on: assessment of natural capital benefits of the Manor Road Park restoration
- Challenges and Choices Consultation
- Nova College help the RiverLUTiON
- Engie improve the health of the River Lea
- A big thank you to our River Wardens
- The Great British Spring Clean comes to your River Lea
- Keep an eye out for Kingfishers as Manor Road Park gets Kingfisher nesting box!
- Wild play by the river
- Group do their bit to keep the river healthy
- Completion of works at the Moor, New Bedford Road
- Work starting on the Houghton Brook Flood Storage Area
- Luton Lea media coverage
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- Work starting on the Houghton Brook Flood Alleviation Scheme
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- New project added to Upper Lea catchment plan
- New rules for septic tanks and small sewage treatment plants
- Judicial Review secured a major step forward for the protection of our most important rivers and wetlands
- Trust Hosts Successful Riverfly Day
- St Albans Residents Volunteers Needed!
- Nominations invited for 2016 CPRE Rural Living Award
- Delivering Together
- Good Friday: a good days sampling on the Upper Lea
- Pollution in Wheathampstead
- Bags of Help
- Wheathampstead volunteers improve river habitat
- Wheathampstead volunteers improve River Lea
- Local volunteer wins national River Champion award
- Wheathampstead Meads project completed
- New Water Environment Grant launched
- Affinity Water £3000 Community Grants
- Vote for River Lea project funding - closing 27 August!
- World Rivers Day 2019 - Protest in the Park!
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- #Why Not Water - sign up to the campaign!
- Upper Lea news
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- CPRE Rural Living Awards Success
- Demon Shrimp found in the Lea Catchment
- Updated River Basin Management Plan Published
- Underwater Hertfordshire
- Satellite technology tracks bird on non-stop 900km flight to Norway
- 2016 River Lea Catchment Conference
- 2017 River Lea Catchment Conference BOOKING OPEN
- Improving Hertford's rivers for wildlife
- DEFRA Consultation - Reducing Personal Water Use - please respond!
- Love Water campaign launch
- 2020 River Lea Catchment Conference
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- Reedbeds bringing floating ecosystems to the most polluted section of the Lea Navigation in Tottenham
- Help save London's Eels!
- New music inspired by the London Lea exhibition now open
- Tottenham Floating Reedbeds: installed and ready to bust pollution
- Drain Marking - Only rain down the drain
- SuDS Planting Days Success
- Firs Farm secures £175,000 from the Mayor of London’s Big Green Fund
- School Program takes 980 students to the River
- Rivers and Wetlands Community Days
- London Lea media coverage
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- Glenbrook SuDS Planting Day
- Boyton Road SuDS Planting Day
- Only rain down the drain
- RiverFest
- Firs Farm Wetland Planting
- Boyton Road Raingarden Maintenance Morning
- Citizen Science Training Day
- Love the Lea - Citizen Science Training
- EVENT: Lea Navigation Canoe Clean-up
- EVENT: Dagenham Brook Clean Up
- EVENT: Mabley Green Annual General Meeting
- EVENT: Lea Navigation Planting (with canoes)
- EVENT: The Moselle: Talk
- EVENT: Glenbrook Wetlands Spring Spruce Up
- EVENT: Love the Lea Late at Vestry House Museum
- EVENT: Plant an edible park
- EVENT: Planting Bury Lodge Wetlands
- London Lea news
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- Sewage leaks have occured on both the Beane and Mimram over the past few weeks
- The first project outlined in the Beane and Mimram Catchment Plan has been completed!
- The Environment Agency identify the 'Challenges and Choices' facing our catchments
- Network Rail contributes £49,000 to the Waterford Marsh project
- New project added to Beane catchment management plan
- Sewage leak on River Beane
- Funding secured for local development of the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative!
- Funding secured for vegetation restoration project on the Beane!
- Winter issue of 'What's Beane Happening?' now available
- Is your plumbing connected right?
- Project progress at Waterford Marsh
- Affinity Water granted 'enhanced' status for plans to reduce river abstraction
- Pasture Pump installed at Waterford Marsh
- Latest River Beane newsletter available
- Phase 2 works underway at Waterford Marsh
- River Beane car stickers now available!
- Waterford Marsh project nearing completion
- Another pasture pump for Waterford Marsh!
- River Beane Restoration Association AGM
- Launch event for Waterford Marsh!
- Waterford Launched
- Latest Issue of RBRA Newsletter
- February Meeting of the River Beane Restoration Association
- Lamprey found at Waterford Heath
- Hertford Mayor Officially Opens New Waterford Heath Walk
- Abstraction reduction for the River Beane
- Government seeks consultation on new water resources national policy statement
- What's "Beane" Happening - Autumn 2018
- What's Beane Happening - Summer 2019
- Event report: Restoring Soils and Rivers in the Beane Catchment, 11 July 2019, Woodhall Park
- Defra consultation: Measures to reduce personal water use
- River Beane Catchment Partnership meeting - 7 Oct 2019
- River Beane media coverage
- Local MP visits stricken River Beane
- Stevenage Comet features the Catchment Plan
- Our chalk rivers on Three Counties Radio
- Defra blog features Beane and Mimram Partnership
- BBC Radio 4 to visit the Beane
- Can you Face the Facts?
- Our rivers take centre stage in BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts!
- Beane Catchment Partnership is on Twitter
- River Beane events
- ‘Walk the Beane’ event
- Beane and Mimram Catchment Management Plan launched!
- The Science of Chalk Streams
- Help us get rid of Himalayan Balsam!
- Free practical river habitat workshops
- Himalayan balsam - help needed
- River Beane AGM
- Tuesday 18th November: Full Beane and Mimram Annual Catchment Partnership Meeting
- 9th October 2014 Film Premiere 'On the Banks of the Beane'
- 19th April 2015 "On the banks of the Beane" Film evening
- River Beane Walk - Watton to Hertford
- River Beane Walk - Whitehall to Walkern
- River Beane Restoration Association AGM 29th June
- Event - Restoring Soils and Rivers in the Beane Catchment
- River Beane news
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- River Mimram news
- Sewage leaks have occured on both the Beane and Mimram over the past few weeks
- Timber! Mimram project 19 continues
- Mimram project 19, 'Windows of Vision' at Singlers Marsh, Welwyn, has been completed
- National rollout of Catchment Approach launched from Beane & Mimram Partnership!
- Minister Richard Benyon announces £1.6 million in funding to help restore the country's rivers
- The Environment Agency identify the 'Challenges and Choices' facing our catchments
- Riverfly training gets underway on Mimram
- The project to remove silt from the river Mimram at Welwyn and replace it with gravel has started.
- Singler's re-gravelling project completed
- Funding secured for local development of the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative!
- Blueprint for Water abstraction reform consultation
- Is your plumbing connected right?
- Panshanger Park now open to the public!
- Affinity Water granted 'enhanced' status for plans to reduce river abstraction
- A lake at the source of the Mimram!
- Promising results from Riverfly sampling at Singlers Marsh
- Let There Be Light... Project 8 Complete
- Fish Survey Singlers Marsh October 2014
- Next Riverfly course 14th March
- Riverfly Monitoring Workshop
- A cosy evening with the Mimram Riverfly group
- CaBA on Twitter
- UK National Fish Vote
- Whats that fish? - New Living Rivers Blog
- Tree works at Tewin Water
- Sherrardswood River Restoration - Phase 2
- Sir Oliver Heald MP visits Tewinbury Nature Reserve
- Riverfly Partnership 2016 Photography Competition
- Hundreds Attend Festival of Wildlife
- New trail highlights rare habitat in Welwyn
- Riverfly Monitoring Training Courses in 2019
- URGENT - Drought Planning Consultation - Open to 18 Oct
- Event - Riverfly Day 2020
- River Mimram media coverage
- Local residents’ association ‘digs in’!
- River Mimram campaigners’ call to lobby Affinity water firm
- Welwyn Hatfield Times covers Mimram website launch
- Our chalk rivers on Three Counties Radio
- Defra blog features Beane and Mimram Partnership
- Can you Face the Facts?
- Our rivers take centre stage in BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts!
- New film charts Mimram restoration project
- Mimram Catchment Partnership is on Twitter
- River Mimram events
- Beane and Mimram Catchment Management Plan launched!
- Help us get rid of Himalayan Balsam!
- Date of the launch of the Catchment Based Approach confirmed
- Free practical river habitat workshops
- Himalayan balsam - help needed
- Panshanger Park walk Saturday 12th July
- Tuesday 18th November: Full Beane and Mimram Annual Catchment Partnership Meeting
- The Festival of Wildlife at Panshanger Park 30th & 31st July
- Modular River Survey Training October 22nd
- Last Riverfly course of 2016
- River Mimram news
- River Stort all news
- River Stort news
- Get Tweeting about wildlife!
- A new sculpture trail has been installed at Thorley Wash Nature Reserve
- Water buffalo at Thorley Wash!
- The Environment Agency identify the 'Challenges and Choices' facing our catchments
- First Stort project completed!
- 'Make Friends' with Pishiobury Park! Would you like to become a Friend of Pishiobury Park?
- Stort Valley Meadows, Harlow - a fantastic success story!
- Buffaloes and Butterflies at Thorley Wash
- Thorley Wash, Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust's flagship Stort Valley reserve, is proving extremely popular with visitors!
- Did you know that the Environment Agency locally produces monthly water situation reports?
- A leak of foaming agent turned the Stort into a 'giant bubble bath' over the weekend
- A project to help restore riverine habitat at Hunsdon Mead is due to start next week
- Funding secured for local development of the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative!
- Blueprint for Water abstraction reform consultation
- Is your plumbing connected right?
- Affinity Water granted 'enhanced' status for plans to reduce river abstraction
- Misconnections resolved in Bishops Stortford town centre
- Four lovely ladies arrive at Thorley Wash
- Restoration on the River Stort
- River Stort Partnership Meeting - 24 Oct 2019
- River Stort media coverage
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- Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- Luton Hoo Lake Research
- River Lea Education Resources
- Green Skills in Rotten Spinney
- RiverLUTiON Volunteer River Monitors
- Only Rain Down the Drain
- Floating Boom at Luton Hoo Lakes
- Wardown Lake Improvements
- Renaissance and Renewal at Houghton Hall Park
- Corporate volunteering and team building days
- Team building: Certsure
- Power Court
- Green Skills at Five Springs
- School Landscape Improvement Designs
- Countryside Stewardship
- Luton Lea Catchment Monitoring App research
- Affinity Water plans
- Green Skills at Riverside Park
- LoveLEA campaign with University of Bedfordshire students
- LoveLEA Art and Design projects with Barnfield College
- Greening Up with the John Muir Award
- Junior River Wardens
- LEAsurely Health Walks
- Cowslip Meadow Community Engagement
- Geomorphological works
- Source of the Houghton Brook
- Sustainable Drainage Systems in Urban Areas: a feasibility study
- Geomorphological works at Manor Road Park
- Luton Water Wardens
- Leagrave Marsh improvements
- Moat Farm & Riddy Lane Allotments
- The Moor, New Bedford Road, Luton
- The Moor river improvement project
- Barnfield College, New Bedford Road
- Brickley Road to Toddington Road, Luton
- Cat Brook
- Houghton Brook
- Houghton Brook flood storage area
- Source of the Lewsey Brook
- Invasive Non-Native Species - INNS
- Luton Hoo
- M1 culverts
- Manor Road Park to Osborne Road to A1081, Parkway
- Riverside Park
- Riverside strategy
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- River Ash
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- Sewerage Scheme Appraisal
- Rural SUDS
- Bringing Light to the Ash at Widford Meadows
- Wetlands for Waders in Widford
- River Ash Living Landscape film
- River Restoration at Waters Place Farm
- Improving Fish Passage at Waters Place Farm
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- Improving Fish Passage on the River Ash
- Restoring the River Ash
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- Middle Lea
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- Hertford Weirs - Enhancing Fish Passage
- Tackling Diffuse Agricultural Pollution
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- Conserving Slimy Wrigglers
- Restoring the Majesty of the Meads
- Implementing Stanborough Reedmarsh Management Plan
- Lemsford Springs Management and Restoration
- Stanborough Reedmarsh Access and Interpretation
- Stanborough Reedmarsh Habitat Restoration
- Rye Meads Nature Reserve
- Enhancing Amwell Nature Reserve
- Project list
- Upper Lea
- Project list
- Rural SUDS
- Riparian Rights and Responsibilities
- Creating Wildlife Habitat at King Edward Place
- Water quality analysis at Batford Springs
- River Bank Protection at Croft Farm
- Melissa Field
- East Lane Car Park
- Integrated Management Plan for Melissa Field and Croft Farm
- Castle Farm Management Plan
- Riparian grazing management
- River Enhancement at Marford Farm
- Eradication of Invasive Plant Species
- Eel pass at Lemsford Mill
- The Meads
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- River Enhancement at Leasey Bridge
- Delivering the Batford Springs Local Nature Reserve Plan
- Boardwalk at Batford Springs
- Reed Fen Habitat Creation at Batford Springs
- Restoring the river at Castle Farm
- Meanders through the Meads
- Project list
- Lower Lea
- Project list
- Improve the flow regime
- Lea Tributaries Catchment Walkover
- Restore the Cornmill Stream
- Red-House Fishery Restoration
- Fish shelters
- Enhancement of River Banks
- Cleaning of barbel spawning beds
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- Conserving Slimy Wrigglers
- Install two eel passes at Holyfield Weir
- Old River Lea Barbel Project
- Project list
- London Lea
- Project list
- Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge
- Fixing Broken Rivers
- Moselle Brook SuDS Projects
- Meridian Water Place Shaping Priority Area
- Ponders End Place Shaping Priority Area
- Deephams Sewage Treatment Works Upgrade
- Lordship Recreation Ground River Restoration
- Priory Common Rainmeadow
- Rectory Gardens SuDS Rainpark
- Dale Court Raingarden
- Boyton Road Raingarden
- Glenbrook Wetlands
- Houndsden Road Raingardens
- Grovelands Park Wetlands
- Firs Farm Wetlands
- Eel Monitoring with ZSL
- Tottenham Floating Reedbeds
- SuDS for Schools
- SuDS for Schools: The Susi Earnshaw Theatre School
- Bow Lock Floating Ecosystem
- Mabley Green Users Group
- Bow Roundabout Reedbed
- Bow Tesco Reedbed
- Three Mill Pontoon Reedbed
- Pymmes Park Wetlands
- Walthamstow Wetlands
- Rain Planter: Bow
- Rain Planter: Churchfields Primary School
- Rain Planter: Stoneydown Primary School
- Rain Planter: Alma Primary School
- Rain Planter: Suffolks Primary School
- Project Reedbed
- Rain Planter: Bowes Primary School
- Grovelands Park Reedbed
- Bury Lodge Wetlands
- Project list
- Rivers Rib & Quin
- River Beane
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- Reduce water consumption
- Opening up the River Beane
- Publicise the Beane
- Eradicate invasive species
- Minimise abstraction from Whitehall pumping station
- Wetland restoration at Waterford Marsh
- Key Stage 2 'rivers' curriculum tie-in
- Increasing water efficiency in Stevenage
- Restoration of Stevenage Brook
- Hartham Common rivers hub
- Managing the channel
- Bringing light to the river
- Channel restoration
- Gully clearance in Stevenage
- Restoration of ponds and wetland
- Stevenage Golf Course
- Wetland restoration at Hook's Cross
- SUDS and greenspace in Stevenage
- Enhancing fish passage
- Restoration of Watton Millpond
- Form and habitat improvements
- Influencing local planning policy
- Weir removal at Cromer
- Aston Brook re-meandering
- Establishing native bankside vegetation
- Riverfly Monitoring on the Beane
- Feature film - the River Beane!
- River restoration at Whitehall
- Habitat enhancement at Frogmore Hall
- Engaging communities in the restoration of Waterford Heath
- Whitehall Re-meandering
- Weir Bypass at The Rookery
- Mink Control
- Water vole habitat suitability survey
- Water Vole Reintroduction Project
- Fine Sediment Investigation
- Waterford Weirs feasibility study
- Project list
- River Mimram
- Project list
- Pond and river restoration at Digswell playing fields
- Stop the abstraction from the Mimram
- Eradicate mink from the Mimram
- Tackling invasive plants along the Mimram
- Windows of Vision at Singler’s Marsh, Welwyn
- Increasing public appreciation
- River Warden Scheme
- Achieve protected status for the River Mimram
- Mimram restoration – Digswell to Poplars Green
- Reduce water consumption
- Enhancing Tewinbury SSSI
- Desilting Tewin Water
- Improving river flow at Singler's Marsh
- Restoration of wetlands and ponds at Archer’s Green
- River bed improvement upstream of Tewinbury Farm
- River path clearance at Singler's Marsh
- Utilise the River Mimram as a classroom
- Restore the river flow near Pulmer Water
- Revisit failed river restoration at Digswell
- Bringing light to the river at Whitwell
- River and reedbed restoration at Duck Trap Wood
- How to manage more water on Singlers Marsh?
- Keeping the River Mimram clean at Sherrardswood
- Improving the river channel upstream of Codicote Mill
- Improve Singler's Bridge Entrance
- Improving fish movement along the Mimram
- Fencing the river between Digswell and Welwyn
- Improving the river between Mimram Valley Marsh and Fulling Mill
- Panshanger Park
- Black Fan Lagoon
- Opening up the river at Poplars Green
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- Stream bed improvement at Singler's Marsh
- Bypassing weirs at Digswell
- Reintroduction of Heptageniidae to the River Mimram
- River Restoration at Sherrardswood
- River Restoration at Tewin Water House
- Chalk River Discovery Trail
- River Restoration at Digswell Lake
- Project list
- River Stort
- Project list
- Restoring the Stort at Hunsdon Mead
- Bringing Barn Owls back to the Stort Valley
- Understanding the Stort Valley’s importance to invertebrates
- Grange Paddocks
- Canons Brook restoration
- Community Involvement
- Catchment Sensitive Farming advice
- Kingfisher bank at Tednambury farm
- Reducing Metaldehyde Pollution
- Restore otters to the Stort
- Pincey Brook restoration
- Mill Fen Sawbridgeworth
- Thorley Wash Nature Reserve
- Managing the Stort Valley for Water Voles
- Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
- Hunsdon Mead Diffuse Water Pollution Plan
- Hunsdon Mead to Harlow
- Red White and Blue at Bishop Stortford
- Stort Navigation in Bishop's Stortford – Reedbeds
- Stort Springs
- Glen Faba Restoration
- Riverside Piazza Enhancement
- Sworders Field Masterplan
- Access improvements at Pishiobury Park
- Bishop's Stortford Piazza Project
- Bishop's Stortford Towpath Project
- Stort Valley Meadows
- Keeping Kingfisher's Nesting on the Stort
- Sawbridgeworth Marsh Nature Reserve
- Project list
- Beane and Mimram Partnership website relocated
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Invasive species are having a devastating effect on native wildlife, and can even cause economic and physical harm to people. This project aims to map and monitor invasive plant species and mink, and coordinate their systematic eradication from the catchment.