Affinity Water has awarded £2,500 to Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust as part of its Community Engagement Programme.  

River Stort at Hunsdon Mead

Contractors will start re-pollardaring willows along the Stort backwater on the northern edge of Hunsdon Mead.

Local people were shocked to see a four metre high wall of foam covering the river.

Polluted Beane

There appears to be a regular and consistent overflow of effluent into the Beane from the sewage pumping station opposite Walkern Mill.

These cover: rainfall, soil moisture, river flows, groundwater levels, and reservoir levels.

River Beane

A new project which aims to improve a short section of the upper River Beane has been added to the plan.

Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust have made a short film documenting the recent river restoration project at Singlers Marsh.

new gravel riffle

Project number 4 on the Mimram catchment plan, 'Stream bed improvement at Singler's Marsh', has been completed! 

Sixty tonnes of silt has been removed from the river bed and replaced with sixty tonnes of gravel.

Tracked dumped

This will improve the river bed habitat for spawning fish and invertebrates.

The project at Waterford Marsh has got off to a flying start with a significant contribution from Network Rail. 

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