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Recently our River Chess Smarter Water Catchment team were delighted to contribute towards an ambitious digital campaign spearheaded by The Chartered Institution of Water and Environment Management (CIWEM) and in collaboration with Content With Purpose (CWP). The campaign titled “The Ripple Effect: Inspiring a Resilient Environment” showcases the essential work of water and environmental management...

Dear Friends, Welcome to the summer edition of the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project newsletter. This year promises to be the busiest year in the project’s history with restoration schemes, education programmes, a packed events schedule, and our citizen science initiatives all featuring heavily in the work programme. When so much is going on it is...

  In partnership with the Ver Valley Society, we’ve collaborated with five schools in St Albans this academic year. Our education team visits these schools to deliver presentations, providing students with insights into chalk streams, the geography and history of the Ver River, and the challenges it encounters. Additionally, students have the opportunity to explore...

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’