Monthly Archives: September 2011

Environment Agency tackling fire foam in River Wandle

Environment Agency 23-Sep-2011   Officers from the Environment Agency are monitoring quantities of foam that have collected on the River Wandle. The foam escaped into the river as fire fighters fought to tackle a serious fire at a waste tyre … Continue reading

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Amazing captures in the Lower Thames Survey

The Environment Agency Fisheries team have been carrying out surveys along the river Thames and the TAC were invited along to help for a day, of course we were delighted to accept. The fish survey is carried by out using … Continue reading

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David Walliams’s Thames swim: it will take a super-sewer to get London out of this mess

If I were not so infernally busy, I think I would go to the banks of the Thames and cheer for David Walliams as he continues his epic downriver migration – like a lost whale or some vast confused salmon … Continue reading

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David Walliams’ next obstacle in swim: Raw Thames sewage

David Walliams has had to deal with hypothermia, diarrhoea and stomach cramps as part of his attempt to swim the length of the Thames. Now the comedian faces his greatest obstacle yet: 500,000 cubic metres of raw sewage. Continue reading

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Environment Agency rescue fish from the River Churn

Thousands of fish are being removed from a Gloucestershire river as water levels continue to fall despite recent spells of rainfall. The Environment Agency will be relocating the fish from the River Churn in Cirencester area, which is currently experiencing … Continue reading

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Thames Hydropower Revealed

Following a recent meeting with the Environment Agency, the Thames Anglers Conservancy can now reveal the full extent of the proposed Hydropower Installations along the River Thames. The expression of interest for Sunbury, Boveney and Boulters weirs expired in July and … Continue reading

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