There wasn’t a lot of point in writing during the summer. It may have been good for holidays but not at all for the river, which showed briefly in Chalfont St Peter in June but subsequently receded again, initially at least part due to weed-choking of the watercourse. Chalfont St Giles fared much better with...
Waking up any morning, you can just about guarantee that the Misbourne will be flowing between Little Missenden and Amersham. More widely, residents of Great Missenden (upstream) and Chalfont St Giles (downstream) express disappointment on the occasions when they have no flow. But flow all the way between Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont Park is...
Most years, well before now, we’ve managed to emulate Moley from Wind in the Willows and poke our noses outside to begin encouraging spring flows. However, there has been a lot going on with other stuff, actually getting to the river is more difficult than it used to be, and the dreaded Covid has knocked...
We are very much looking forward to our 13th MRA Annual Dinner, postponed from 2020, on Wednesday 15th December at The Greyhound. Probably best if you can arrive from 7.00 pm for a drink and chat and we’ll allow 10 minutes for “The AGM” before letting the team begin service at 7.30. Thanks to those...
It has been another good month on the work front. Four good work parties rescued the watercourse from beneath about a kilometre of dense watercress downstream of Chalfont St Giles, establishing flow well into the sheep fields Meanwhile, several groups have worked on the reach through Chalfont St Peter and, while still work in progress,...
What a great month we just had! A fantastic day in Chalfont St Giles on Wednesday 15th September and continued on Saturday18th re-discovering the river after our lockdown hiatus, and getting it running again all the way from Pheasant Hill to the end of Silsden Meadow. On the Wednesday, our team was mainly new friends...
Many thanks to all those who have been in touch seeking info regarding work-parties, and more so to those who have been out clearing off their own bat. Apologies for my lack of energy in recent months. For most of the year, we have had good flow along the Misbourne. The strange gap between Chalfont...
The October rainfall in 2020 was the highest in the past 30 years. While November and December rainfall was unremarkable, the addition of over 100mm in January led to a 4month total to end January of 399mm – just a few mm short of the exceptional figures of 2001 and 2003, and actually more than...
At this time in the past twelve years we would have been finalising plans for Misbourne River Action’s annual Christmas dinner, but that is another casualty of 2020. So too was the majority of our work programme with only two (very productive) work parties completed. However, there is lots of river news – some of...
As on 1st April, we can’t bring you any commentary on groundwater readings for 1st May. In the fullness of time, Affinity Water’s team will be out and about interrogating the automatic data-loggers and we should be able to extract the figures that Dave Anderson usually reliably collects for us on the day. However, we...
