RestoreTheWeaver

A group of +1000 residents dedicated to the restoration of the Upper Weaver from Church Minshull to the headwaters in the Bickerton Hills

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

And we're on X!! A growing group of >1000 local residents of the Upper Weaver, Cheshire concerned about the degrading health of our river...the arterial heart of local towns & villages 💚

Photos below of a major slurry spill and the resultant massive fish kill in 2023

Pls RT 👍

[Catherine Moncrieff @cmoncrieff1]

@CommonsEAC last week - good to hear road runoff pollution come up. This source of toxic chemicals entering rivers has gone under the radar for too long.
Read @CIWEM recent report shining a light on this issue: https://t.co/ALyjSu72c2
@DefraGovUK @DefraWater @DfT

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

Do you know @CECHighways?

This is a real question here in the milk capital of England where pollutant intercepting Highways gullies are left to overflow for ~4 years in many rural settings.

What does it also do to species living in the river too?

@RHC_Agriculture @NFUtweets

[Joanna Bradley @stormwater_jo]

What happens when cows drink highway runoff? I've no idea. Have you? #HighwayRunoff

[Alastair Driver @AliDriverUK]

Congratulations @RiverActionUK for this important win in the courts. To those former senior directors in the EA who chose to slavishly follow ministerial instruction rather than challenging hard and effectively - shame on you - and the same goes for the NFU for arguing against it

[The Dee Trust / Cynefin Dyfrdwy @thedeetrust]

Tomorrow is #WFMD24 World Fish Migration Day- a global celebration to raise awareness of the importance of free-flowing rivers and migratory fish 🐟🐟🐟

Here Peter our CEO talks about the impacts of weirs and barriers to fish migration on the Dee

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[BENEATH BRITISH WATERS Our Freshwater Planet @UnderwaterMedia]

Unfortunately could not make the @TheRiverSummit. This is what our rivers should look like underwater. Full of life & thriving, sadly they are way of that mark. Habitat loss, and pollution has taken it's toll, don't be fooled that today's rivers are the new natural.
#Rivers

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

Please attend @CheshireEast @CECHighways!

We hope you are listening and attending this FREE webinar.

Many gullies across the catchment are full and not routinely emptied meaning these chemicals are ending up in our already polluted River Weaver

[CIWEM @CIWEM]

🚨Is polluted runoff from roads harming our rivers? Waterway health is at risk from a toxic cocktail of microplastics & chemicals.🚗🌧️Join our FREE webinar on May 8th to discuss solutions & recommendations: https://t.co/sxql6gKVG0 #pollution #waterquality @CIWEM @StormwaterUK

[Oly Lowe @olylowe]

So many people would simply see this as an eroding cliff that needs attention...

At worse this "attention" would be stone or concrete, at best bioengineering...but eroding cliffs are an increasingly rare habitat, and source of valuable riverine substrate (e.g. spawning habitat).

[West Wales Rivers Trust @WestWalesRT]

"Having so many barriers effectively creates a network of small dams or lakes, which offer plants and animals very different habitats from those found in free-flowing rivers, and are often not appropriate for river species." https://t.co/1JI22NFLIB

[Environment Agency @EnvAgency]

🚨 We’re introducing a whistleblowing portal to make it easier for water company workers to safely report wrongdoing they’ve witnessed at work.

Reports will be treated in confidence and we may use findings to support our enforcement work.

Read more: https://t.co/WsVy50Dh4n

[Peter Powell @powell_peter]

Last week, there were at least 3 slurry-based pollution incidents in Wales. Each one would have been devastating to the wildlife living in the river.

An essential question for Welsh rivers:

What is slurry, and how do we stop it from getting into rivers?

Here is a 🧵.

[WeaverGowyRivers @WGowyRivers]

8 Weaver Gowy partners & local volunteers out on the river today to Clean up the Weaver! Removing floating pennywort an invasive non native, rubbish & kick sampling. Better together! @AnglingTrust @paddle_uk @EnvAgencyNW @uugroupplc @CRTNorthWest @MerseyRivers @GroundworkCLM

[CPRE Herefordshire @CPREHfdshire]

Click here - https://t.co/e4I1vVIrex - to view the WyeViz open source app. We need your support, find out how you can help us on our website and follow for more updates - https://t.co/eiW25eGtHf
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#cpreherefordshire #wyeviz #riverwye #herefordshire

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

5 minute survey to shape priorities across Cheshire

Help coordinate the Local Nature Recovery Strategy by stating how the Weaver's habitats & species matter to you & suggest actions that could be taken to help wildlife across Cheshire via the link below

https://t.co/gVmjjLX17l

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

🚜 🐄 💩SlurrySpreadingForecast🚜 🐄 💩

We are extending the POOR forecast until at least Saturday given the heavy (20mm) overnight rain in the catchment.

Sunshine due soon 🤞

@Reaseheath @RHC_Agriculture @UCR_LandEnviro @NfuNantwich @NFUNorthWest @WGowyRivers @MerseyRivers

[RestoreTheWeaver @RestoreWeaver]

🚜 🐄 💩SlurrySpreadingForecast🚜 🐄 💩

With very heavy rain forecast on top of pretty damp soils the slurry spreading forecast is looking poor for the next few days until at least the middle of the week.

@RHC_Agriculture @NFUtweets @EnvAgencyNW @NWFishEA @WGowyRivers

[WeaverGowyRivers @WGowyRivers]

Huge thanks to special guest speakers & new members of the Catchment partnership @RestoreWeaver for joining us in #Nantwich today to discuss & build collaboration for natures recovery along our waterways - We’re blessed to have your eyes, ears and expertise on the ground! 😀👀🐟

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

In the small print of the latest Defra Environmental Land Management additions, new generous payments for farmers to establish ribbon wetlands along watercourses on their land. This is huge, because riparian buffers make the best nature corridors, as well as helping dramatically to reduce both flooding and drought - and even more so when they have beavers managing them instead of people. https://t.co/bezxpcGcct

[Environment Agency Midlands @EnvAgencyMids]

Find out how we prosecuted @stwater for a ‘reckless’ pollution of the River Trent near #StokeOnTrent

They were fined £2m after 260m litres of illegal sewage flowed away.

https://t.co/Pa5eMXZBrn

[Environment Agency @EnvAgency]

£2 million.

This is the amount Severn Trent Water have been fined for ‘recklessly’ discharging almost 260 million litres of raw sewage into the River Trent.

We welcome this sentence and will continue to take tough action against companies that breach environmental rules.

[West Wales Rivers Trust @WestWalesRT]

This timelapse is of one of our recent weir removals, showing the river habitat changes that come from the removal of impounding structures.
As it is #WeirRemovalWeek, we thought it would be useful to share why we carry out weir removals https://t.co/kQsT0Cv66V

[Peter Powell @powell_peter]

Soil Health = River health.

All our rivers start in the Sky as rainfall; the vast majority of rain runs through or over the ground before it enters a brook or river.

The type and health of the soil on the ground impacts how quickly and cleanly the water enters a river.