According to Earthwatch which runs the Thames Water Blitz coming up again this weekend, phosphate levels between 0.05 milligrammes per litre and 0.10 mg/l  indicate moderate pollution and over 0.10 mg/l indicates high…

 Moving down through the village the river skirts the back of a few houses and follows a course carved by man, many years ago, away from the natural channel. We…

At last, even though we have walked along some good looking river and found good invertebrate life at the lower end of the food chain, we had hardly seen a fish…