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Citizen Science/Riverfly tester on Norfolk’s Chalk Streams Hates Fly tippers, River polluters💩moans a lot & won’t stop moaning until our rivers are protected

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@RussellB1ggs
Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Shocking 🤬 yes that is a turd 💩 that pops up to say hello 👋 💩
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Nick Balmer
2 years
This is what happens when accountants get unbridled control of an industry, without the moderating effect of a diverse set of skills, starting out with the events of 1973. See @Feargal_Sharkey @ivelrev @RussellB1ggs @EamonnO
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My MP @jamesowild voted for more of this 💩 11 seconds in marvel at the site of the floating 💩pop up & happily head towards the Wash Shellfish fisheries ☹️
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There’s hope for Ash comeback 1000’s of healthy seedlings beneath a healthy Ancient Ash 🤞
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2 years
Absolutely breaks my heart that this Sea Eagle was poisoned. Filmed on it’s last visit to Norfolk where it only fed on a Muntjac carcass & wasn’t eating 🐑 @chrisloder
@RaptorPersUK
Raptor Persecution UK
2 years
More info revealed on Dorset Police's relationship with local MP Chris Loder and the botched investigation into the poisoned white-tailed eagle. Jesus. New blog ⬇️.
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What are these just filmed near Fakenham Norfolk
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Why ? 200yr old Oak felled during the nesting season full of 🪺holes & probably used by🦇large Bees nest🐝 This Oak would have become a Stag Oak & probably stood for another 100yrs No danger to anyone🤞the ignorant fool that cut this down got stung 🐝@TheKentAcorn
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2 years
Heacham Norfolk @Shitlawns this one has it all 😏Plastic Grass Tarmac & Cherry Laurel hedge & all dumped onto a rare habitat dune system Surely this should be banned
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10 months
🤔wasn’t expecting that 🦇at 4am
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
The UK government says chalk streams won't be healthy until 2063 - too late for me and for them! I'm with @HantsIWWildlife, I want my MP to protect and restore chalk streams: one of the rarest habitats on earth.
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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Grimston Sewage pump house💩simply can’t cope @AnglianWater & 💩is running directly into the Chalk Stream🤬This is alongside The #Roman Temple Springs where they would bath & drink the Crystal clear water SORT THIS 💩OUT @EnvAgencyAnglia @Ofwat @Feargal_Sharkey
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@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
2 years
Another week, another @AnglianWater incident. Early evening during heavy rainfall; the same manhole cover that has caused problems for years. Foul water, sewage and toilet paper flowing into the #chalkstream. @OSennitt @EnvAgency @BBCLookEast @EDP24 @Feargal_Sharkey
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100%💩@EnvAgencyAnglia get your arses down there as another Chalk Stream is being destroyed @GaywoodRiver
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WEEDS 🙄just visiting a friend who’s purchased a new 🏡 & his partner has said I want all those bloody WEEDS out🤨I ❤️Red Campion & would never consider it to be just a WEED🤷‍♂️Opinions please & what advice would you give ?
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The Norfolk Amazon 😍A rare unpolluted Chalk stream
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Finally the @EnvAgencyAnglia have pulled their finger out & cleaned the monitor & placed it in the water🧐how much evidence has been missed Did some testing for you @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust @Feargal_Sharkey @FiveRiversEC @jamesowild @OSennitt @KingsLynnLive @The_WMA
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🤬4 weeks later @EnvAgencyAnglia Incompetence or lack of funding ? @OfficeforEP investigate🙏 “Norfolk’s Forgotten Chalk Stream” @GaywoodRiver @FiveRiversEC @N_Rivers_Trust @AnglianWater @NENorfolkSufflk @WestNorfolkRob @WNGreens @Feargal_Sharkey @jamesowild @KingsLynnLive
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OMG 😍impressive flock of flamingos 🦩 has arrived early on the Wash
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#StormDebi & another dead Ash blown over☹️usually I like to leave the🌳to rot but landed in the garden so had to cut it up🪵 A warning to anyone clearing🌳 🙏check for🦇& other wildlife especially if you’re thinking of🔥it @_BCT_ @Andrew9Boswell
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Rarer than Hen’s teeth A perfect Chalk Stream😍 ❤️Chalk Streams❤️
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😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍.A area once impounded by a sluice & now a fast running crystal clear Chalk Stream it’s moments like this that makes the fight to protect our Rivers so important @N_Rivers_Trust @paulpowlesland @Feargal_Sharkey @UnderwaterMedia @joe_crowley
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😍Sea Trout Redds😍those who have followed me for a long time will know I’m usually posting films of💩but moments like this makes all the campaigning worthwhile & why all rivers need protection @N_Rivers_Trust
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Confirmation that this is ⛽️🛢️floating on the Gaywood River a rare Chalk Stream let down badly by the authorities @EnvAgencyAnglia @OfficeforEP @jamesowild @KingsLynnLive 🤔enforcement and increased inspections could have prevented this environmental disaster @GaywoodRiver
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UNBELIEVABLE 🤬and purely down to lack of Enforcement/prosecution from @EnvAgencyAnglia This could have been stopped years ago & while you decide what to do The Gaywood River dies ☠️🐟.
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The Gaywood River once supplied King’s Lynn with fresh water during the Medieval period & was drawn up from the river at Kettle Mills on a 10ft wooden wheel in Iron buckets😍2024 & drink it now & you’d die from Typhoid Cholera or Dysentery 🤢🤮💀@WATERSHED_i
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@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
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Please share: Thursday evening and the tragic pollution of the Gaywood River continues. @EnvAgencyAnglia, what is happening? Did you install this boom which is doing nothing to stop the huge oil/diesel/petrol spill destroying this rare #chalkstream.
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30 yrs since privatisation & £60 Billion to shareholders Huge bonuses to the Directors💷very little investment in the infrastructure This site can’t cope with all the extra🏘️+ @EnvAgency funding slashed to the🦴Will @SteveBarclay stop his wife’s bonuses 💷💷💷?@Feargal_Sharkey
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@ameliapeta
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@RussellB1ggs @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia WTF???? I have seen so many posts about this … why is nothing being done? As an American I do not understand.
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The Gaywood River🤢what could be nicer than a Sunday walk alongside King’s Lynns rare Chalk stream @FiveRiversEC @N_Rivers_Trust @WildTroutTrust @EnvAgencyAnglia @Happy_Mapper @WestNorfolkRob @clithers @markjdye @The_WMA @KingsLynnLive @jamesowild @AnglianWater @Feargal_Sharkey
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🤷‍♂️#NoMowMay I’m not going to publicly shame this village but am sure others will🧐last week this was Yellow with Buttercups & swaths of Cuckoo flower Orchids just about to flower &🪺🦆🐣WHY THE FOK WOULD SOMEONE CUT IT Neat n Tidy brigade ?
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@flyfishingpcast @EnvAgencyAnglia Not really a problem growing 🥔when you’re prepared to place a pump directly into a tiny Chalk stream 🤬& you can guess where all the soil is going to end up 🤬
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1st European Hornet 🐝 of the Year & popped it outside & could feel it nibbling at my finger 🙏don’t squash them as they rarely ever sting
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#SilentEarth @DaveGoulson .Where are the 🦋🐝🐞🦟🦗🐜🪲🪰🕷️?Ive been watching this Buddleia (Butterfly Bush 🦋) & nothing ☹️
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2 years
Welcome to Hillington A148 where for some bizarre reason the roadside verge has been sprayed WHY🤷‍♂️@NorfolkCC @WestNorfolkBC @Jo_the_botanist @wildernorfolk @Buzz_dont_tweet @NorfolkWT
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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Gin clear water😍Emerald Green😍a reminder how our rare Chalk Streams should look like ❤️#ChalkStreams
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Oh no ☹️never seen this stream dry up & a reminder that West Norfolk is still in serious drought 1000’s of 🐟fry dying & sadly little I can do to save them😭But nearby a landowner is abstracting water to irrigate 🥔 growing on the shallow Chalk soils 🏜️
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Is @AnglianWater fit for purpose ? #SewageScandal Pott Row where the manholes regularly pump out💩🚽🧻& it then pours into the surface drain You can clearly see🧻paper Your system can’t cope 💩@WestNorfolkBC allows more🏘️to be built @EnvAgencyAnglia @GaywoodRiver @OSennitt
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#SewageScandal @AnglianWater @joe_crowley @Feargal_Sharkey Tested water sample collected from the manhole cover & never seen a result so bad💩AW operative showed up & took a sample from the stream which will probably show no signs of💩as it’s no longer discharging 🤷‍♂️@OSennitt
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Update🤬still irrigating 🥔this tiny Chalk stream is being drained of its water 500m from it’s spring source @EnvAgencyAnglia PERMIT ?.Who’s responsible for destroying the riparian stream bank @The_WMA ? WaterVole habitat destroyed @NENorfolkSufflk @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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@flyfishingpcast @EnvAgencyAnglia Not really a problem growing 🥔when you’re prepared to place a pump directly into a tiny Chalk stream 🤬& you can guess where all the soil is going to end up 🤬
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FFS🤯less than 2d after posting this I’ve now recorded a reading of 11.8 💀🐟Pott Row STW @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia is this discharge monitored ? @GaywoodRiver @WestNorfolkRob @WNGreens @markjdye @Happy_Mapper @clithers @sandrajsquire @Feargal_Sharkey @N_Rivers_Trust
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Citizen Scientists definitely doing the @EnvAgency job & today I broke my record for Phosphate testing 5.9 using a High Range tester a record I never ever expected to see when testing a tiny Chalk Stream🤬Without CS volunteers this would have never been found @N_Rivers_Trust
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A lot of people calling for all the Drains Ditches Streams/Rivers to be dredged @The_WMA but please don’t dredge our Chalk Streams they very rarely flood & the disturbed sediment will destroy them ❤️#ChalkStreams
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Water Crowfoot😍 + Gin clear crystal water ❤️Chalk streams @wildflower_hour
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Today I have mainly been saving 100’s of 🐟which were about to die in their drying pond A little digging and job done ✅
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Let me introduce you to the Gaywood River a once Crystal clear Chalk stream which once was full of Trout😍Starwort😍Water Crowfoot😍now nothing grows in the river in King’s Lynn & nobody gives a💩@AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia @The_WMA 🙏save it @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust
@RiverActionUK
RiverActionUK
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The River Wye can’t take much more of this 💩💩. On a day when our rivers face grave threats from govt plans to ditch river pollution rules, we investigate how the government's abandonment of critical environmental regulations is killing one of the nation's favourite rivers. 🧵
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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@Feargal_Sharkey 🚽paper & 💩pours into yet another rare Chalk Stream while @AnglianWater blames it onto a few misconnections but there going to investigate & send a letter to the 🏡owner @GaywoodRiver
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Shameful neglect of our rare Chalk Streams🤬50 years ago I would also drink water directly from a Chalk Stream where we would dam swim & catch Trout😍Sadly it rarely ever flows now @AnglianWater Over abstraction ? 🆘#SaveOurStreams
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Matt Walker @balhammatt.bsky.social
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@GaywoodRiver @AnglianWater @Feargal_Sharkey @WATERSHED_i @guardiannews @BBCNorfolk @joe_crowley @EnvAgencyAnglia @RussellB1ggs @OSennitt @Matthew_Wright I lived in Watery Lane as a boy (50 years ago). We used to drink from the stream as it was so clear (probably not the right thing to do in hindsight!). The old lady next door to us took water in a bucket each day and had done all her life! Shocking from @AnglianWater.
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Never gets old & credit to the genius that did this
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Environmental campaigners call for chalk streams legal protection - BBC News 👏
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WHY ? @NorwichCC A Bootiful meadow of wild flowers destroyed🤯#NoMowMay #NoMowSummer hopefully nobody is going to cut the other patch ? Was the other bit left deliberately or did the contractor run out of fuel ?
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@pow_rebecca @jake_fiennes @TonyJuniper @Conservatives Now take a look at the worst Chalk Stream in Norfolk The Gaywood River “Norfolk’s Forgotten Chalk Stream”@GaywoodRiver
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We have lost our reverence for water☹️revered by ancient civilisations This large Quartz🪨marks a Chalk Spring which never dries out & is close to the Ickneild Way Englands oldest road & a #Roman villa ❤️#ChalkStreams
@leanahosea
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From sacred to sewer: could anything better exemplify how we've lost our sense of the value of water? We need to recover a reverence for the source of life.
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🦫Roulette 🫣 really wouldn’t want to be the one taking the next bite @BeaverTrust
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Prosecute the Bastards responsible for multiple pollution incidents to the Gaywood River at Bawsey & you’ll certainly improve this Norfolk Chalk Stream @GaywoodRiver
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@EnvAgencyAnglia
EnvAgencyAnglia
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We have been working to improve chalk streams in Norfolk. These are projects on the River Yare, River Wensum, River Bure. Read more here:
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6 days after reporting seeing ⛽️🛢️on the river the potential polluters are claiming it’s not coming from a ditch flowing through their site but it’s from a incident upstream🤔There is no ⛽️🛢️visible in the river above their site @EnvAgencyAnglia @GaywoodRiver who do you believe ?
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So it turns out that a Absorbent boom was deployed across the watercourse by our operations team🤔@EnvAgencyAnglia this children’s pool noddle didn’t absorb anything & to make matters worse you dumped Oil drip mats into the river🤡most of which floated downstream @The_WMA
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Sewage from a broken pipe at Grimston which has happened over 6 times in the last year @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia @FiveRiversEC @N_Rivers_Trust @Feargal_Sharkey this 💩runs into a Chalk Stream meters from its spring source & @WestNorfolkBC considering an application for 🏘️.
@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
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More heartbreaking evidence of pollution near the source of the #Gaywoodriver in Grimston. Here, an @AnglianWater sewage pipe in the field running alongside burst once again with foul water running into the #chalkstream for hours. @itvanglia @BBCLookEast @EDP24
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Chalk stream perfection
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🐍#Adders Syderstone Common @NorfolkWT The Males almost look Blue (counted over 40 within 1 hour) & spoke to a couple with loose🐕& they didn’t know anything about poisonous 🐍😱🐕straight on the lead 🙂
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Apologies for the graphic content 🦌But this is what happens when landowners add 2 strands of wire to a stock fence 🦌jumping the fence unfortunately get their legs entangled 3rd🦌I’ve found this year☹️
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Seem to remember @NFUtweets supporting the actions of John Price the River Lugg destroyer. I doubt their so called environment advisor has ever visited this rare Chalk Stream ? Who’s telling the truth ? @The_WMA looks like DREDGING @AnglianWater @OSennitt 🕵️‍♂️
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The only thing supplying water to the River Tat was the discharge from the Sculthorpe STW @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia even this heavily Phosphate rich water responsible for the Green Algae scum disappears quickly into the ground W Norfolk suffering severe drought ☹️
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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Large Woody Debris🪵fallen 🌳transform Chalk Streams creating scour & exposing the gravel for spawning🐟 Sadly this won’t be happening on the River Tat a tributary of the Wensum due to the ongoing DROUGHT @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia Over Abstraction ?
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Even better today as the silt has cleared @aquamaintain @N_Rivers_Trust Rebirth of the River Stiffkey Rewiggle & Reconnection with the floodplain 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤️Chalk Streams Gaywood River next🙏 @GaywoodRiver
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@jake_fiennes
Jake Fiennes
2 years
Sometimes you just need a bit of positivity. Today at 13 :27 a fragile chalk stream was reconnected to the floodplain . Nature is amazing and wonderfully forgiving . Just Listen!. @N_Rivers_Trust @HolkhamEstate .@TonyJuniper @AnglianWater
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River Yealmpton 😱discharge from China Clay mines Perfectly timed to suffocate the eggs of breeding Trout 😭@theriverstrust @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons
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Large Woody Debris🪵fallen 🌳transform Chalk Streams creating scour & exposing the gravel for spawning🐟 Sadly this won’t be happening on the River Tat a tributary of the Wensum due to the ongoing DROUGHT @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia Over Abstraction ?
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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The result of storing rotting vegetables alongside a Chalk Stream & what happens when the @EnvAgencyAnglia fails to monitor sites with a history of polluting the waterways The EA assured me that the rotting🥕🥬had been moved over 2 years ago @GaywoodRiver EA incident no 02231085
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Happy #ValentinesDay 💩a gift from the @EnvAgencyAnglia why aren’t you doing more to stop this💩🤬sample taken 2m down in the CHALK STREAM so heavily diluted Phosphate 12.4 & Ammonia 0.64 @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust @NENorfolkSufflk @Feargal_Sharkey @jamesowild 💩=💀🐟🤷‍♂️
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
4 years
“It’s only a Rabbit”🤬it’s been a few decades since I have wanted to punch someone but came very close😡(Peddars Way) 2 ignorant/stupid men & 3 Black Labrador’s running loose &🐕‍🦺carrying this week old Levirate Told them that they had killed a Hare & just got a smug look🤬
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Citizen Scientists definitely doing the @EnvAgency job & today I broke my record for Phosphate testing 5.9 using a High Range tester a record I never ever expected to see when testing a tiny Chalk Stream🤬Without CS volunteers this would have never been found @N_Rivers_Trust
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@HenleyMermaids
Henley Mermaids
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Citizen scientists doing the Environment Agency’s job. We need a properly funded regulator! @RiverActionUK @UnderwaterMedia @rustyrockets @RussellB1ggs @SteveBackshall
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Stephen Fry backs call for investigation into river 'pollution' in West Norfolk | Eastern Daily Press 🧐How’s the investigation going ⁦@EnvAgencyAnglia⁩ ? Still blaming it on natural sources ? ⁦@GaywoodRiver⁩ ⁦@OSennitt
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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#SewageScandal 💩@AnglianWater 💩#LoveEveryPlop @EnvAgencyAnglia @jamesowild This needs a full investigation untreated sewage being dumped directly into the Spring source of the Gaywood River at Temple Springs🤬Worshiped by the #Romans for the purity of the Spring Water.
@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
1 year
What’s this? Looks like a beautiful ford at the bottom of Candlestick Lane? Let’s find out…. @AnglianWater .#sewage #thrivingEast
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
😳shocking & it’s maxed out 🤔therefore the result could be much worse @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia incident no 2187190 I hope you’re investigating & not allowing AW to fob you off.
@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
2 years
This shouldn’t ever happen with a High Phosphate checker and converts to 9.78mg/l 490x higher than the recommended dose for a healthy Chalk stream at 0.02mg/l
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
The mighty Wensum 🧐just below Norwich Cathedral & stopped to look at the Swans 🦢 beautiful clear water & full of 🐟but even on a hot dry day something nasty is pouring into the water & down river from here people are paddling & swimming 🤢🤮
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
4 years
The GAYWOOD River King’s Lynns premier Chalk stream 🤮💩😱🤢🤬😢☹️ ☠️Zero plant growth☠️Zero life☹️Pollution hotspot at Bawsey & every tree is dead☠️@EnvAgencyAnglia
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
#HappyEaster from @AnglianWater just had to explain to a chap that allowing his🐕to drink from this stream wasn’t a good idea & he felt physically🤮when I explained what’s been happening at the Grimston STW as his grandchildren played in the stream all last summer @GaywoodRiver
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
😍Sea Trout Redds😍those who have followed me for a long time will know I’m usually posting films of💩but moments like this makes all the campaigning worthwhile & why all rivers need protection @N_Rivers_Trust
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
LWD😍large woody Debris transforms slow running Chalk streams creating scouring of the riverbed exposing the gravel & this is where the largest Trout Redds can be found 🙏don’t remove it
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Norfolk Python 🐍 @ARGroupsUK a few years ago I was walking beside the river & witnessed a Grass🐍catch a Trout & it slid up the bank with the🐟thrashing around in it’s mouth 2m away from me 🙂But on the one day I didn’t have my phone🤯
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Scheduled to be carried out in September the annual maintenance on the Gaywood River🤔a 3m bucket rips every plant from the river & dumps it into a🚜trailer & no escape for🐟Eels or invertebrates☹️the clear water turned into a silted🐟suffocating death trap & 🦢🦆flee in terror
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
2 Chalk rivers The Ingol suffocating in thick mud☹️no gravel & zero plant growth Chalk streams don’t have the flow to remove it & is why riparian buffers & cover crops are so important The Babingley protected by Meadows/Woods😍 @N_Rivers_Trust @NENorfolkSufflk @GaywoodRiver
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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I’m trying to convince myself that the Insects will magically appear but absolutely nothing on the Jasmine & Honeysuckle☹️Full sun & the scent is overwhelming #SilentEarth
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
11 months
#SilentEarth @DaveGoulson .Where are the 🦋🐝🐞🦟🦗🐜🪲🪰🕷️?Ive been watching this Buddleia (Butterfly Bush 🦋) & nothing ☹️
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Chalk Spring 😍constant 10c & possibly the purest water in the world & used to flush your🚽💩partly treated at the Sewage Treatment works ( or as the Water Companies call them Water Recycling Works) & then dumped back into a river near you #SewageScandal
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
I’ve discovered another one 🥺Litcham STW @AnglianWater a tiny tributary of the Nar which is now dependent on someone taking a 💩for its supply @pow_rebecca care to visit ?
@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
2 years
@RussellB1ggs @georgebernhard Well it's about 10,000 years since the last chalk streams were formed in Norfolk so clearly time for a new one.
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Chalk streams are so rare that there often known as Englands #Rainforest occurring only where Chalk bedrock meets the Earth’s surface which makes them globally rare Crystal clear cool💦rich in minerals allow them to support many species😍#SaveOurStreams #HappyNewYear2023
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
3 years
@Blacky_Himself Norfolk right now 🏜
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
4 years
🤔Will this be the Template used to respond to all us irritating clueless fools who clearly don’t understand that Storm Overflows💩are only used in “EXTREME RAINFALL to PREVENT FLOODING”🤥A sunny day in King’s Lynn & here’s a Storm overflow🤷‍♂️ This is not acceptable
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
A truly shocking story where @AnglianWater has continued to claim it’s only groundwater & has no environmental impact on the rare Chalk Stream 🚽🧻💩💩💩💩💩💩.@EnvAgencyAnglia ?
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@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
1 year
Anglian Water spills sewage for two weeks straight into rare chalk stream: Thanks to @luciemheath. #rivers #sewagescandal .@Feargal_Sharkey @RussellB1ggs @WATERSHED_i @joe_crowley @UnderwaterMedia @N_Rivers_Trust @EnvAgencyAnglia.
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
@Sueblueocean @RichardBowler1 Unchecked snares are the scourge of the countryside & I routinely find them alongside rivers/streams that I check for pollution In the last few years I’ve seen abandoned snares with only the bones left where some unfortunate animal suffered a horrific death
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
11 months
Firstly I must learn how to say DEPLETED🙄As predicted they’ve cut it again🤨Killing countless Froglets/Toadlets 🐸leaving the pond & probably chopping up Newts🦎heading to the pond to breed @_JoelAshton @norfolkponds @AWPRCO “Norfolk & Good” 🤬
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
🤷‍♂️#NoMowMay I’m not going to publicly shame this village but am sure others will🧐last week this was Yellow with Buttercups & swaths of Cuckoo flower Orchids just about to flower &🪺🦆🐣WHY THE FOK WOULD SOMEONE CUT IT Neat n Tidy brigade ?
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Shame on you @AnglianWater get this sorted out it’s not acceptable that sewage💩enters this rare Chalk stream at its source💩Filmed 09/05/23 What are you doing to stop this ? @EnvAgencyAnglia Temple Spring where the #Romans celebrated the purity of the spring @Feargal_Sharkey
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@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
2 years
More #sewage pollution into the #chalkstream at #Grimston in Norfolk. Not even raining and toilet paper, faeces and foul water are just pouring in. The @EnvAgencyAnglia and @AnglianWater will attempt to deny it again. @OSennitt @BBCLookEast @itvanglia @TheLynnNews @WATERSHED_i
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
#SpringEquinox No Sewage💩No Agricultural pollution🐄🐓💩& No Road runoff🛢️🛞 = Gin clear Chalk Stream😍 ❤️Chalk Streams
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
FFS @The_WMA haven’t you learnt anything destroying WaterVole habitat is illegal @EnvAgencyAnglia @NENorfolkSufflk @WaterVole trashing the bank will introduce silt into the stream destabilising it @N_Rivers_Trust @GaywoodRiver Derby Fen SSSI @NorfolkWT Chalk Stream Hell 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Norfolk’s highest #waterfall #Hunstanton striped cliffs
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
10 months
😍The Gaywood River A Bootiful Chalk Stream large clumps of Starwort provides cover/protection for Trout fry whilst channeling the water which creates scouring of the riverbed A riparian paradise teaming with WaterVoles
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Untouched😍A Chalk Stream becomes a magical place fallen🌳create scour of the gravels & cover for🐟& amongst the roots Otters build their Holts A rare glimpse of what all our rivers probably looked like before Human interference
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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24/03/24 A month since the pollution event @EnvAgencyAnglia The Boom didn’t trap any⛽️& once again your Sonde which you claim gives real time monitoring is barely touching the water🤷‍♂️Your job is to protect the environment & prosecute Polluter’s 🙏DO YOUR JOB @GaywoodRiver
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Prosecute the Bastards responsible for multiple pollution incidents to the Gaywood River at Bawsey & you’ll certainly improve this Norfolk Chalk Stream @GaywoodRiver
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Why ? Starwort & Water Crowfoot 2021 the most important Chalk Stream plants😍Sugar Fen SSSI @NorfolkWT but considered to be a flood risk to the residents of King’s Lynn 6 miles downstream MADNESS
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
Disgusting that this hasn’t been sorted out & worse that @AnglianWater continues to🤥& deny any foul water💩entered the Chalk Stream Filmed 9th May🚽🧻💩clearly visible Ammonia 2.22 Phosphate 5.1 Stop your🤥& sort your💩out & stop blaming your customers @EnvAgencyAnglia
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@GaywoodRiver
Gaywood River Revival
2 years
As sewage spews from its pipes into a rare #chalkstream for the umpteenth time @AnglianWater says its CUSTOMERS are to blame. Thanks for listening to our story @OSennitt. 👀@Feargal_Sharkey @leanahosea #Gaywoodriver #Norfolk.
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
🤔Who sanctioned the use of Oil drip mats to be placed into the river & why isn’t there any action being taken to prevent this pollution happening at its source🤷‍♂️@GaywoodRiver @jamesowild @EnvAgencyAnglia @The_WMA @NENorfolkSufflk @N_Rivers_Trust @WestNorfolkBC @OSennitt
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Apologies for the sound as it was pouring down & windy The Gaywood River “Norfolk’s Forgotten Chalk Stream” being destroyed by 🛢️⛽️& this is what’s being done to stop the pollution🫣This rare Chalk Stream once supplied King’s Lynn with its drinking water @GaywoodRiver
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
10 months
Today’s dilemma🧐trying to convince a riparian landowner that Angelica isn’t Giant Hogweed🙄every year it’s cut & even sprayed🤨despite telling the landowner that it’s not Giant Hogweed I’m ignored
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
3 years
One eyed Alien army massing in the Norfolk woods ready for invasion😱were doomed #DontLookUp
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
1 year
Once a impounded river channel choked with silt☹️sluice removed & locally sourced🪵laid down to form natural meanders resulting in scouring of the riverbed exposing the gravels😍12 happy Brown Trout & in Winter it’s regularly used by Sea Trout @N_Rivers_Trust River Babingley
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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@sallydjbarley @EnvAgencyAnglia @AnglianWater Scandalous🤬Water Companies abstracting💦from Chalk Aquifer’s have gambled on Winter🌧️& have no provision for alternative sources other than some distant plans for a reservoir & building a pipe in the future Conservationists warned them but they did nothing @Feargal_Sharkey
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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So so sad 😭 This is now a common sight @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia Over abstraction ? Reservoirs should have been built over 30 years as everyone knows you can’t keep sucking the Chalk Aquifer dry @Feargal_Sharkey @NENorfolkSufflk
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
OVER ABSTRACTION ? Despite 212mm of rain during October this Winterbourne remains dry☹️@AnglianWater claims to be taking the water from the Greensand below the Chalk but surely the water in the Chalk flows down to replace it🤔=Dry Springs 🆘#SaveOurStreams
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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😍Christmas has come early & a special treat to all my followers🙂finally managed to film the Sea Trout spawning❤️these 2 are over 80cm in length @N_Rivers_Trust
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
3 years
😍Monster Sea Trout Redds 🤞River Babingley @N_Rivers_Trust @WildTroutTrust
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
2 years
River Ingol ☹️choked with silt & couldn’t even find a fresh water shrimp 🦐 barely any flow☹️spoke with a local who has spent 70 years alongside this Chalk Stream & remembers it being full of Brown Trout @N_Rivers_Trust @EnvAgencyAnglia @AnglianWater 🆘 #SaveOurStreams
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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STOP POLLUTING GAYWOOD RIVER🙏SAVE GAYWOOD RIVER A RARE CHALK STREAM🙏how much longer do we have to SHOUT to be noticed🤷‍♂️@EnvAgencyAnglia @GaywoodRiver @NENorfolkSufflk @KingsLynnLive @WestNorfolkBC @N_Rivers_Trust @xrkingslynn @Feargal_Sharkey @OSennitt @TheLynnNews
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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Crystal Gin clear water😍 free of Agricultural/industrial pollution & with no added💩it’s so full of plants that it’s sometimes hard to see where the river flows & only given away by reflection’s in the water😍 ❤️#chalkstreams 🆘 #saveourstreams
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
3 years
Check out these 2 Bootiful Oaks hiding in the Norfolk Fog @TheKentAcorn
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Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎
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Ditch from the Baco Compak waste site King’s Lynn today still pouring filthy water into the Gaywood River this place needs a wetland made to filter out the silt @N_Rivers_Trust @WildTroutTrust @Feargal_Sharkey
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