Our excellent Ambassador, Peter Coombs was out and about in Yate recently, painting Yellow Fish beside gully pots that are connected to the River Frome with volunteers from the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust. The Yellow Fish images are there to remind people that the drain is connected directly to the river, so they mustn’t pour […]
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The road to recovery in Wales Jo was pleased to be invited to deliver a presentation to the Wales Green Infrastructure Forum on May 25th 2022. Jo’s presentation was entitled ‘Roads to Recovery’ and she described the problems of pollution from road surfaces that affects rivers across Wales. She then went on to describe the
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In May 2022, Jo Bradley joined her friends and associates from the Douglas Valley Partnership on a site visit to Walton le Dale Wastewater Treatment works, hosted by the excellent team on site from United Utilities. Jo used to visit this site to sample the effluent when she worked at the Environment Agency and it
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SuDS practitioners in England are generally familiar with the Sheffield Grey-to-Green retrofit SuDS scheme which is an excellent example of what can be done in a busy city to introduce effective bioretention zones, but Jo had never had the opportunity to visit the site until today. Although it is inspiring to read about schemes like
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I am an extremely proud Ambassador for Stormwater Shepherds to be able to share this photo of Bogdan, aged 11, who was evacuated from a village north of Kiev a few weeks ago with nothing and now being housed by the amazing Andy Airey & Debbie Airey. Honoured to have Bogdan join the Sodbury &
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#ThisIsDrainage A recent LinkedIn campaign sought to highlight the benefits and beauty that can be found in sustainable drainage systems or SuDS to try to ‘bust the myth’ that all drainage must be made of pipes and channels. Jo Bradley from Stormwater Shepherds UK visited her local SuDS scheme at Buckshaw Village to capture some
One of the projects that Stormwater Shepherds UK is working on at the moment is a data-gathering exercise to measure the level of phosphorus in urban runoff from a variety of surfaces. Nutrient pollution is becoming more of an issue in England as the regulator, Natural England, is insisting that all new developments in polluted
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Stormwater Shepherds UK gathered with friends and partners at the beautiful Jesmond Dene park in Newcastle to clean up the River and to chat with local families about litter and wildlife. We had a fabulous day in the sunshine and we collected 10 big bags of rubbish. The rubbish was mostly plastic bottles, drinks cans
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Radio 4 interview Saturday 23rd April 2022 Our UK Director of Operations, Jo Bradley, took part in a discussion about storm sewer overflows with Mr Tim Farron on ‘Week in Westminster’ on Radio 4. You can catch up and listen again by following the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016pgg The segment is 25 minutes into the programme.
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Behind the Tesco Superstore in Leatherhead, there is a little stream that no-one really notices. It is a tributary of the River Mole and it is hidden amongst undergrowth until it pops out in the woods by Leatherhead Common. On a sunny Saturday in April, an intrepid group of litter pickers from Stormwater Shepherds
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