River Char Community Project
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Length of river testing
We are working closely with Wessex Water and have set-up a series of regular water quality tests along the length of the River Char - they started in June and are running for the rest of 2024. They cover:
We'll publish the results here soon. Meanwhile, below are the Westcountry CSI test results for the River Char for 2023 - see the full pdf hereYes please, Minister
On Thursday 29th February (leap day) West Dorset’s MP, Chris Loder and his team brought Robbie Moore (Government Minister for Water and Rural Growth) on a flying visit to Charmouth. CROWD members Dana Assinder, Paul Ramsden and Andrew Carey were invited to join the Minister for half an hour on the river bridge by the beach. They presented a Ministerial Briefing on the CROWD (Clean Rivers of West Dorset) campaign to get the Environment Agency (EA) to restart water quality monitoring at the popular beach lagoons in Charmouth and Seatown. The River Char Community Group is a leading member of CROWD. See the press release here Read the Ministerial Briefing here |
Read the Jan. 2024 newsletter of the Upper Char Community Project
Here's a video of the Green Party's Baroness Jenny Jones's visit to Lyme Regis to learn more about pollution in our rivers.
What can I do to help clean up and restore the River Char?
River Char Community Project
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Read more about sewage and other pollution in the lower River CharRead the full River Char Report commissioned by your Parish Council from Dorset AONB - published Dec 2021
Is my river fit to play in? Check the online map at the Rivers Trust
Watch BBC Panorama'a 'The River Pollution Scandal' (In 2020 the water companies pumped raw sewage into English rivers for a total of over 3million hours) Read The Guardian's article - Britain oozes sewage ITV News: Dorset's River Lim now 'ecologically dead' after sewage spillages, campaigners say. Details here You can watch the AONB film that launched the River Char Community Project in summer 2021 below:Project FundingWe are currently putting together the action programme for the next twelve months which we expect to be finalised in April. We hope to publish an update on the financing of the project then.
For the financial year 2021/22, Dorset AONB, working in partnership with DWT and FWAG, secured funding for the River Char Community Project from:
Activity supported through this funding (some, but not all of it, in the River Char catchment) included:
Background documents
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