A fantastic effort from your 12 volunteers on the September Work Day. Everyone was shattered but really satisfied to have opened the channel that had all but disappeared all the way from the start of the sheepfield to Cherry Acre. The before and afters below give you an idea. We were also delighted to find...
Category: From the Riverbank
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2016 – August Alerts
It was good that we had a reasonable number of volunteers for our work day on 31st July because we found the river had very nearly disappeared under the jungle of the field just upstream of CSG library. After much hard work it was persuaded to reappear and follow the prescribed route. Now, despite this...
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2016 – July Jolly
We hope the more seasonal weather of the past few days has been to your taste. Not much river news this month. Stands of Japanese knotweed in Chalfont St Peter are a bit of a concern. In 2013, reporting them to EA was sufficient to mobilise trained and licensed teams to treat the problem –...
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2016 – June Jawings
First a reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, we will be having a quick tidy-up and blockage removal of as many key points as we have people for from 2.00. Let me know if you can join us and we’ll sort out some task groups. Last week, The Save St Giles (SSG) group invited me to join...
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2016 – May Missive
Not much news to share this month. We made a small contribution to the SaveStGiles petition to the House of Lords regarding routing and depth of HS2 and hope to have the opportunity later in the month to put concerns regarding a risk of damage to flow to the HS2 team. A copy of a...
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2016 – March Mutterings
Our mad March day associated with “Clean for the Queen”, and accompanied by flurries of sleet, certainly achieved some attractive results in both CSP and CSG, together with some good publicity and a few new volunteers. Possibly, like me, you wonder why on earth “Clean for the Queen” suddenly came out of nowhere to a...
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2016 – February Features
We hope you have enjoyed a happy and healthy winter break from Misbourne matters and my waffling. True, we have had a lot of rain recently; although nothing compared with many poor souls in other parts. January rainfall in the Chalfonts was some 130% of average and some places in the Chilterns had over 150%....
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2015 – December Discussions
Well informed people such as yourselves are well aware of the special nature of the Chiltern’s chalk streams and that our river Misbourne is one of only 216 in the world – (there are 5 times this number of wild pandas!). More, you know the river through the Chalfonts and up to Amersham provides a...
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2015 – November Notes
See attached flyer for the Chiltern Society River & Wetlands Group Meeting this coming Saturday morning – good and relevant speakers for anyone interested in the well being of the River Misbourne. Numbers are still growing for our Annual Dinner now confirmed at The Greyhound on December 15th but there is still room for plenty...
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2015 – September Sentences
What a super display the invertebrate monitoring team put on for us at the Chalfont St Giles Show! Dorothie’s diptera, Mel’s minnows, Derek’s diagrams and Mike’s microscope had the stand filled with inquisitive people of all ages for almost the whole period. Many thanks to them and others who helped on the day. As usual...