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You're not wrong John, an email from the Canal and Rivers Trust today..... "We have some important news to share with you about the future of the nation’s canals which you may see in the press or wider communications over the next few days. Our much-loved canal network, which is so important...

You know when you've had a couple of ciders and someone throws down the gauntlet................................................... 🏊‍♀️🤿🚣‍♂️🏄‍♀️🪕⛵🚤⚰️ How hard can it be, what could possibly go wrong?! :D

I was going to canoe the Lugg a couple of weeks ago but chickened out because I decided there was a good chance I wouldn't survive the trip. The section from Lugg bridge to the Wye confluence was strewn with fallen trees and there was a fair flow too, might have another look now it's been dry...

I fell for that on guard one night and the duty sergeant shouts "who's got an HGV licence" I legged it to his desk thinking I'd be on a jolly "Excellent" he said, "get us four mugs of NATO tea"

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Ok but what I'm reading is on balance the catchment is suffering an excess, the river is taking the muck from 25% of the UK's broilers 24 million birds last count

Or send it out of the Wye catchment, don't put it on the land. "Each year 3,000 tonnes more phosphate is spread on Herefordshire fields than the plants can take up. Effectively, there is enough phosphate already on the fields to cover the next 5-8 years! The authors point out that P is an...

Agreed but there's a lot of data coming in now from the citizen science initiative which should help. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/rephokus/project-summary/

Yes!!! "Phosphate can also be found bound up in soil particles. Agricultural practice has a profound effect on these pollution sources. As the industry has moved away from orchards and pasture, run-off has been an increasing problem throughout the county."...

Avara recognises there's a problem though and is committed to reducing their impact albeit far too slowly. I was at a meeting with their boss who didn't dispute the findings of Lancaster University's study (60-70% phosphate is from agriculture).

Yes I understand, I'm not pretending to know much but the science bloke at the Wye and Usk foundation says there's already far too much phosphate in the ground and any further application anywhere in the catchment is no good for the river. A link I posted earlier suggested the same.

Earlier this year, Powys Council granted planning permission for two intensive poultry units up to 90,000 birds at Wern Haelog near Builth Wells next to the Wye. The proposal included a plan to export the manure and dirty water to an anaerobic digestor nearby. However, as the Brecon Beacons...

Tue 10 Jan 2023 06.30 GMT "However, Powys county council is still approving intensive poultry units in the catchment. Last year, Fish Legal challenged a decision by Powys to approve a unit at Wern Haelog near Builth Wells, housing 90,000 chickens, but lost the case. Last week, the Welsh...

That's the problem around here it seems "Their May 2022 report on the River Wye catchment shows that it’s not just the amount of chicken manure being spread on the land that’s the problem. There are also staggeringly high levels of P already bound up in soils as a result of years of dumping of...

https://cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2023/04/27/farmer-jailed-damage-lugg The judges sentencing remarks are nine pages long, he mentions a few times the need for the punishment to serve as a deterrent to others and how Mr Price believed the rules didn't apply to him. I'm not sure if others are...

Also USA but applies here, same company doing the same thing to the Wye https://www.theforester.co.uk/news/usa-ruling-on-pollution-could-impact-wye-case-592401