Just by way of a tidy-up for The Olympics and the RuntheRace event, we will have a quick work-party 10.00 to 11.00 this Saturday, 28th focused on just the old ford and section between The Greyhound and the Vic Wotton bridge in Chalfont St Peter. If you would like to join us – welcome: no...
Category: From the Riverbank
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2012 – June II
This topsy-turvy year continues with the river advancing at a time of year when we might expect it to be in retreat. Aside from the flash-flows during showers, flow now extends fairly regularly to the top of the leat by Misbourne Farm. However, trying to guess what may happen in the rest of the...
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2012 – June I – After the Jubilee
I hope you’ve enjoyed the celebrations as much as we have. If the rain happened to interrupt your street party too at least you will have had that warm glow of knowing it was doing good to the river. I’ve been without my computer for a little while so have not yet updated the...
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2012 – May 1st Water levels
The media have been reporting, albeit with typical cynicism and spin, that recent rains have hardly dented the groundwater deficit following two dry years. They are right; as shown by this graph of groundwater levels over the last 4 years at Misbourne Farm, N of Chalfont Giles. You will notice that the groundwater level...
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2012 – April – Spring??
From the longest dry spell since XXXX – (your choice), it appears we may have now entered the wettest drought on record: you didn’t know river watching could be this much fun! It will be interesting to see what the 1st May groundwater and river measurements tell us about the worth of this late recharge....
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2012 – March Missive
Well, you no longer need MRA to tell you that it has been unusually dry in recent months! The media is full of this “news”, which you’ve been reading here for a long time. Let us, at least rejoice that this burst of publicity is again drawing attention to the state of the nation’s rivers...
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2012 – January Journal
New Year Greetings to you! As we walk beside the dry river bed and contemplate today’s “news” regarding HS2, it is cheering to remember back to our very pleasant and jolly annual dinner at The Ivy House in December. Inevitably, conversation then, and at the “not a meeting” earlier that month, touched from time to time on...
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2011 – November News & Annual Dinner
The degree of the current near drought in our area was brought home to me on Thursday at an excellent talk by Allen Beechey of The Chiltern Conservation Board to The River Chess Association. While lamenting our wanton waste of precious water – Bucks has the highest per capita water consumption in Europe! – Allen...
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2011 – November Notes
Most of you will be all too aware that our river is dry, very dry, in a way that we had perhaps unrealistically thought we would not see again. While dismayed by the lack of flow anywhere between Quarrendon Mill and Chalfont Park, we are not alone: there has been no flow at Great Missenden...
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2011 – October
Many thanks for contacting me about the proposed work party this Saturday. Hopefully, there will be a few more by the weekend and I have copied this to a few extras from the regular squad in case you were about to! Well! – what to say? The Veolia trial of injecting 2 Mld at Amersham...