Update on how monitoring the flylife in an urban chalkstream is helping to inform strategies for restoration work. (link below)

http://urbantrout.blogspot.com/

Hi', Paul. Managed to get started with the monitoring at Kettleside Farm, on the River Petteril, after a long, enforced lay off from Oct, 2007, when I found one of your study group's once-captive shrimps, just below the M6 drainage culvert, to Sept, 2008, when I started checking Kitchenhill Bridge site, 3/4 mile downstream, where diluted upstream pollution permits shrimps to survive.
Checked Kettleside again, March 2nd, above culvert, 2 shrimps-- due to either the extension to Newton Reigny sewage system or an offending farmer getting his act together. The first native shrimps I have found at the farm in over three years. Hope the situation continues to improve. Heptagenids had improved to a count of 42, the best ever. That was bettered at Kitchenhill by a count of 43, plus 15 shrimps. What a difference that 3/4 mile makes!! All the best, Terry

Great stuff Terry.
Have I previously sent you our resident invertebrate community data for that reach (upstream and downstream of the highway outfall)?

Can probably email if its of interest.

Paul

Hi', Paul. PM on the way. TerryC