Archive for the tag 'Bradford Beck'

Latest urban river news from the Wild Trout Trust

Readers of Urbantrout who are also members of the Wild Trout Trust will recently have received the charity’s autumn newsletter for 2023 – and it’s now available for everyone to read online too, with plenty of urban updates for aficionados of city rivers: Tim Jacklin’s latest news from the demolition of Snake Lane weir in […]

Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 10 April

Vote today! The Wild Trout Trust’s Snake Lane urban weir removal project reaches the final 5 of this year’s Dam Removal Europe Awards Scenes from the Wandle: Extinction Rebellion declares the river a crime scene… … while the Wandle Piscators urban fishing club takes on the angling lease at Morden Hall Park Better Becks in […]

Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 16 January

(Un)build it and they will come! How a Wild Trout Trust urban weir removal project is bringing salmon back to Derbyshire’s River Ecclesbourne Championing the rights of rivers on east London’s urban Roding: Paul Powlesland speaks out in the Guardian Reclaiming the Don and Sheaf in Sheffield: an interview with Simon Ogden £1.6m fine for […]

Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 3 September

Plastic pollution in rivers: has Wales reached a tipping point? Bradford Beck runs black with sewage, killing fish and invertebrates (just days after suffering runoff from a waste depot fire at Shipley) How dams damage rivers, and why it’s good to remove them Plastic rivers (again): most marine pollution doesn’t start in the sea If […]

Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 30 April

Streamers on the Irwell: Martin’s Minnow strikes again for David James Bendle Getting the green light: new hope for a bottle and can deposit scheme in England and Wales (as well as mutant plastic-munching enzymes to break down PET) Plastic pollution again: we all know the value of river clean-ups, so maybe now’s the time […]

Film night: Taking a tour of the Bradford Beck

Thanks once again to our good friend Dr Gaskell’s epic editing skillz, this week’s film night presents a reprise of this summer’s Trout in the Town sponsored Urban Rivers Conclave. This time it’s Professor David Lerner (head of the URSULA research project) taking us on an enthralling tour of the Aire Rivers Trust’s pilot for […]