Great to see this colony up and running again, though I note that the water by Tesco's is contaminated by diesel again. Last time this happened it came from the lorry park at Grocontinental. I don't know where this spill originates, but I've reported it to the Environment Agency.
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Monday, 6 March 2017
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Pollution in the Brook
This disgusting-looking stuff is sewage fungus, and grows when nutrients contaminate the water. In this case, judging by the state of fungal growth, the pollution's chronic; in other words it's been going on for months.
This part of the brook - actually a tributary into the main water course - doesn't have a lot in the way of an "upstream", so one of the places the Environment Agency are looking at is the new anaerobic digestion plant owned by Grocontinental which is in the next field. Its possible that the maize stored on that site has been allowed to leak nutrients into the ground and they've ended up in the water course, causing the problem.
Worryingly, the brook runs right through town and into Greenfields Nature Reserve at Chemistry, with water vole colonies all along the length. A lot of people will be watching for the outcome of this.
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