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Award-winning river restoration community group. “Heroic” - London Standard. “A great example of environmental action” - UK Gov. “Legendary” - News Shopper

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Bouquets of Himalayan Balsam - removed about fifty Himalayan Balsam plants from the #RiverQuaggy between Manor Park and Staplehurst Road #HitherGreen #SE13

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Nitrous Oxide cylinders are no laughing matter

A latest littering scourge is cylinders of N2O aka ‘laughing gas’.

Removed these dumped cylinders from a river bank.

Vapes still contaminate our streets + rivers with their metals, plastics, and chemicals, but at reduced levels.

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Does this @envagency ‘Setting record straight’ blog on its dispute with @riverroding really mean “We recognise the value of working together for homes and habits”?

From our experience we also question the preceding sentence.

https://t.co/IWwrDDrzmg

#EnvironmentAgency #rivers

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@EnvAgency @EnvAgencySE Good to see, but releasing species isn’t an end in itself, is it?

What are the project’s conservation aims?

What actions are in hand to improve the prospects for released crayfish?

What actions will address pollution of the water, and improve habitat?

Thanks.

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River will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' by farmer https://t.co/k5h5FBrFB8

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Plumbing, not plumping…!

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Dodgy household plumping adding to the poor state of local rivers.

We don’t recognise much of Thames Water’s closing claims: “… All pollution reports are investigated within two hours…”

(For more see the pollution saga story on our website)

https://t.co/qnPeDDlYfu

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Dodgy household plumbing adding to the poor state of local rivers.

We don’t recognise much of Thames Water’s closing claims: “… All pollution reports are investigated within two hours…”

(For more see the pollution saga story on our website)

https://t.co/qnPeDDlYfu

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We’re going to this…

Local river expert, Lawrence Beale Collins, is presenting on how plastics, contaminants and invasive species are affecting our local rivers.

Upstairs at The Brookmill public house, near Brookmill Park #SE8 on Monday 25 May, 7pm.

See you there.

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River Wye given right to be pollution free - charter signed by local authorities, community groups and conservation organisations https://t.co/ybeGWZYedn

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Have you seen it yet?

The new #RiverQuaggy sculpture in downtown #Lewisham

See the story of artist Anna Reading’s ‘Street Waders’ weathervane-like sculpture on our updated website

https://t.co/5aLoJofaM9

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When we removed 200+ shopping bags of personal medical waste and take away containers from the #RiverQuaggy, we thought we’d dealt with the problem.

But the person dumping in the river in both @Royal_Greenwich and @LewishamCouncil is back at it.

https://t.co/0SJB6CASRR

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Pollution saga - one house, 1 river, 4 years.

The story of how we tried to get various authorities and agencies to cooperate with us to end the deliberate pollution of the #RiverQuaggy

A short & a longer version of the saga are on our website: https://t.co/siDQMyVgYo

[Clean Air in London @CleanAirLondon]

CODE RED AIR POLLUTION ALERT for UK. Widespread multi-source episode Sun 24 to Fri 29 May 2026. Waves of particles and ozone with HIGH (7-9/10) in places at times. Possible unprecedented CODE BLACK ozone. Check official updates and health advice and Clean Air in Cities app

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

These are some of wild flowers sprayed with pesticide on Sheffield streets today by @SheffCouncil Harts tongue fern, Forget-me-not, Herb Robert. In a nature reserve we'd delight in seeing them. Why do we poison them on our streets? We need to rethink our relationship with nature

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

One of our celebrity supporters, @reallorraine , highlighting the disgusting state of the M25 motorway, very close to Heathrow Airport. How can the board of @NationalHways continue to oversee this typically appalling sight all over England's motorways??? @HighwaysNews @LouiseBTS

[Ladywell Live @LadywellLive]

A stump - all that’s left of a 300 year old mulberry tree once the centrepiece of the garden at Ladywell House. The Ladywell Society has written to planners criticising the failure to protect the tree which was heavily “pruned” by developers. https://t.co/GKgXaB2MSl

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Pollution Update:
- Owner of the property on Manor Park that’s been polluting the #RiverQuaggy since at least 2022 is diverting the kitchen sink pipe that’s been pouring effluent direct into the river. Work due by 16/1.
- @LewishamCouncil could have acted on this 4 years ago.

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@MayorofLondon @LDN_environment @LondonAssembly it’s not just sewage.

Our rivers are also in poor state due to routine drip-drip pollution from streets, dodgy plumbing, and being stuck in concrete.

Plus, the system to report pollution isn’t fit for purpose, as we show here…

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

We’ve cleaned up London’s air - now it’s time for our rivers.

Water companies can’t continue acting like this.

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If access is a problem, the engineer could go downstream to Osborn Terrace where the river re-emerges.

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More dirty-looking water - this time on the #WeigallRoad stretch of the #RiverQuaggy downstream from #SutcliffePark #Greenwich #SE6 heading to #LeeGreen and on to #Lewisham and #Deptford.

@Royal_Greenwich @EnvAgency @thameswater @LewishamCouncil