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Below is the latest and greatest new from West Cumbria Rivers Trust:
In the Bootle area we’ve been working closely with Bootle Flood Action Group on a natural flood management project in the River Annas catchment area that aims to help reduce flood risk to the village.In partnership with farmers and landow…
Work has successfully continued throughout 2020 on our two-year natural flood management project which aims to help reduce flood risk to the village of Flimby.We’re working with farmers and landowners in the catchment area above Flimby to…
Work on our three-year community project to improve Longlands Lake and the River Keekle near Cleator Moor is making progress, despite the challenges of Covid-19.The three-year People on the Keekle project is funded by Sellafield Ltd and com…
The ancient and internationally protected freshwater mussel is critically endangered in Europe with only a handful of populations remaining in England. The River Ehen in West Cumbria is home to the only one of these populations still showin…
The Crookhurst Beck catchment is a small lowland catchment which flows into the Solway Firth to the north of Allonby village. Streams in the catchment have struggled with water pollution issues, impacting on the bathing waters at Allonby.…
We’re delighted to have been awarded £380,000 by the government’s new Green Recovery Challenge Fund to extend our existing Glenderamackin and Cocker catchment restoration and natural flood management projects. With this addit…
We’re working with the University of Glasgow on a research project that aims to increase understanding of the migration journeys of young salmon.‘Save our Salmon’ is a two-year partnership project between West Cumbria Rivers Trust, th…
Despite the challenges of working during the pandemic and a wet summer raising river levels, we had a successful season conducting our annual fish surveys, with 162 sites surveyed across the River Derwent catchment area and 4,786 salmon and…
After five years of planning and two years of on-the-ground work, we’re thrilled that the River Keekle restoration project is complete!In what is thought to be the biggest river restoration of its kind in England, a 2.5 km long plast…
We’re calling for Cumbria’s MPs to support a Bill in Parliament that will tackle river pollution from untreated sewage.In 2019, raw sewage was discharged into Cumbria’s rivers and lakes at 599 storm overflow sites for more th…
