Wild about Chesham Moor
Date: 23rd April 2025
This morning the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project and Maydencroft were out with volunteers from the Chesham Environmental Group laying nearly...
News for Chilterns Chalk Streams Project
Chilterns National Landscape secures funding to develop ‘Not Bourne Yesterday’
Date: 04th September 2024
The Chilterns National Landscape has received a £350k grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Not Bourne Yesterday: Chalk...
Position statement on sewage discharges in the Chilterns National Landscape
Date: 03rd April 2024
The Chilterns National Landscape has released a position statement expressing dismay that local communities, including Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter, are yet again suffering from raw sewage discharges flowing from overloaded sewage pipes owned and managed by Thames Water.
Ewelme Brook Catchment Plan
Date: 13th March 2024
Check out our new Storymap collection! It sets out the catchment plan for the Ewelme Brook, one of nine major...
Mending the Misbourne
Date: 19th December 2023
In response to growing calls from the local communities for a plan to ‘Mend the Misbourne’ we recently held a...
Riverfly Update
by Hannah Parry-Wilson
Date: 06th September 2023
Riverfly is a citizen science method of investigating water quality and chalk stream health by recording the presence and abundance...
Chilterns Chalk Stream project appears on ITV Meridian News
Date: 13th October 2022
Watch again: Professor Kate Heppell of the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project on ITV Meridian News at Ewelme Brook.
The Heart of the Chilterns: Volunteers #3 Alice Dancer, River Chess Citizen Science volunteer
Date: 26th August 2022
Alice Dancer is a brand new volunteer who’s just got started with citizen science volunteering, helping to monitor the health of the River Chess chalk stream. Here, she shares what she’s been learning so far!
Smarter Water Catchment Update
Date: 01st August 2022
Find out what's been happening with Citizen Scientists and the Smarter Water Catchment!
“Chalk Streams First” coalition puts forward proposals to cease abstraction from the Colne and Lea chalk streams
Date: 14th July 2022
A coalition of conservation and river organisations is working to tackle a major threat to our chalk streams in the Chilterns: groundwater abstraction for our water supply.