A habitat enhancement project is well underway on the R. Chess at Crestyl in Sarratt, where the CCSP has been providing expertise and guidance to the landowner whose family have been working the site for 140 years. The primary objective of the work is to restore the channel to a more diverse, natural looking watercourse...
We’re very proud of the work that we completed on the Hamble Brook last year and with the current high water are delighted to watch its recovery. Figure 1 – Water crowfoot on a restored ponds (left) and vegetation and fast flowing water in the main channel (right) The channel looks more natural than it...
Volunteers from the Chiltern Rangers and Latimer Park Fly Fishers have worked to repair several large breaches in the bank of the River Chess at Bois Mill. The high-water levels were creating a major contamination issue in the little Chess where it flows close to the main river (sometimes there is only a metre between...
CCSP Team presenting at the ’Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting, 2024’
With funding from Smarter Water Catchment Project we are now able to offer free "wildlife of the Chilterns" posters for schools in our area.
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.
We're delighted to share that we've completed our first annual Riverfly Newsletter.
Check out our new Storymap collection! It sets out the catchment plan for the Ewelme Brook, one of nine major chalk streams which rises in the Chilterns National Landscape. Local groups contacted the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project for help to draw together a plan to restore this much loved local stream. Partners Benson Nature Group,...
An article from Val Siddiqui, Benson Nature Group “Brilliant, beautiful” “I couldn’t bear to tear myself away as it was SO interesting…… Such a great event and so inspiring for all ages.” 856 people visited “Wild about Benson” on 8 – 9th March and these comments were typical. In his opening address Dr...
The low-lying land adjacent to many of our chalk streams would have provided unique habitat for a wide variety of plants, birds, insects and small mammals. These wetland areas also provide refuges during the temporary drying phases of the main channel, protection from predators for over-wintering birds and, in wetter times, flood storage for communities...
