Malvern Hills National Landscape
Water companies have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent times. However, a bit of local good news can be found in the graph below showing a significant and sustained drop in phosphate levels in the brook downstream of the Severn Trent Water sewage treatment works below West Malvern.
The improvements follow from a recent reedbed regeneration project and a phosphate permit being introduced at the works. A big thank you to local landowners for monitoring the water and to the Severn Rivers Trust for its support of this citizen science monitoring work in the area. There’s still so much to do to improve our water quality but this is good news.
Data on water quality from the Severn Rivers Trust available at: river-teme-water-quality-theriverstrust.hub.arcgis.com/pages/fdaadc04db204b73960d2393cca44f31
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Great to see this shared! We’re really pleased to be supporting the citizen science work here and proud of the local volunteers and landowners helping track these improvements. Still a long way to go, but this is a great example of what targeted action and collaboration can achieve 🌿
Great to see some good news. Well done to all the water monitors who include Colwall Orchard Group volunteers.
On this day, in 1381, the Peasant’s Revolt was triggered. They cried ‘ Piers Plowman will rise again’. Piers, the oppressed Everyman of the age, is the subject of locally educated, William Langland’s epic contemporary poem. And William, it is said, may have been named after Longlands field in Colwall, shown in the photo. The connections between landscape, art and history run strong in these parts. We hope to bring this out in our #naturecalling project.
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