South Cumbria Rivers Trust

Coordinator  Ben Lamb 14 Nov 07

Sites      Catchments: Crake (4), Bela (1), Leven (1), Duddon (10)
Team      14
Activity   June 2007
www.scrt.co.uk

South Cumbria Rivers Trust held 2 workshops in 2007 and monitoring activity commenced apace, with a further workshop, held at the Freshwater Biological Association, (FBA)  Windemere, training 12 new partcipants in spring 2008.

A further training course has been held at the FBA, Windermere (Saturday 9th May 2009), with 14 participants now fully trained.

 

Report on riverfly monitoring on the river Bela - 2007

Following the successful South Cumbria Riverfly Partnership training days in April 2007, an approved routine monitoring site on the River Bela u/s A6 Bridge at Beetham (SD 497 797) was set up by Milnthorpe Anglers.

There is an Environment Agency routine monitoring site approx. 200m further upstream (SD 498 795). This site has been sampled more or less twice yearly since 1990 allowing target and trigger levels to be set for the Riverfly monitoring site.
The report from this monitoring in 2007 is available for download below.  It gives some background information on Riverfly monitoring and demonstrates monitoring from an angling group's perspective.
» Download the river Bela report 2007 – PDF-File, 211.1 KB

River Eden - Eden Rivers Trust

Coordinator Becky Helm 13 Nov 07

Sites      Eden Catchment. River Pettril - Lower Eden tributary (2) plus others
Team      tbc
Activity   Since August 2005, with expansion 2008

Two sites on the River Eden have been monitored since 2005 forming part of the pilot for the National Initiative. The sites fall above and below a drainage culvert coming off the M6 - the sites were selected to monitor the associated impact from the culvert on the water quality.  

In spring 2008, The Eden Rivers Trust held a further workshop at the Enviroment Agency site in Penrith, training 12 new participants to expand activity.

» Download the course leaflet – PDF-File, 235.0 KB

Riverfly Partnership Angler Monitoring Initiative - 2008 Report for Cumbria

Following the training sessions held in may 2008, a number of anglers in North and South Cumbria have undertaken river invertebrate monitoring this year, and combined with those anglers already participating in the scheme have supplied a total of 88 returns from  24 sites on 7 different catchments.

  » Download the 2008 report for Cumbria – PDF-File, 4.0 MB