River Char Community Project
Next River Char Community Project Events:
- Saturday 25th November 2023 (10am-3pm) Natural Flood Management working party session at Babers Farm. Full Details.
- Thursday 25th January 2024 (app. 10am-2pm) Daylighting Working Party with Nick Gray’s DWT volunteers
- Thursday 22nd February 2024 (7pm) Community Meeting at Whitchurch Canonicorum Village Hall. To cover recent work on the River Brit catchment; update on the major clean-up of nurdles and microplastics at Charmouth beach; a talk on geomorphology and Natural Flood Management locally; local developments at a landscape scale.
- Sat 2nd March – (app. 10am-3pm) Natural Flood Management working party session on the River Char
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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