The BART team have been busy this week removing several large blockages from the course of the Norton Brook. The blockages were deemed barriers to fish at most flow conditions and impound the waterbody, limiting habitat diversity throughout this stretch of the brook (approx. 300m). Removing the blockages has opened up a large stretch from…
Did you spot the BART logo in the Bristol Post, Telegraph or Sunday Times this weekend? BART Project Manager Harriet took to the water in a cardboard boat this weekend for the ‘My Future My Choice‘ cardboard boat race at the Bristol Harbour Festival. Her boat, HMS Fatberg, was created to raise awareness of the…
Yesterday BART spent the day on the Wellow Brook assessing fish passage on three weirs in Radstock. We measured the physical characteristics of the weirs including water depths, height and length of structure and also flow velocities and inserted these into a database which calculates the passability of the structures for a number of different…
BART has recently secured funding via the Environment Agency’s Water & Environment Improvement Fund to deliver habitat enhancement projects in two locations along the Cam & Wellow Brooks. The project aims to directly improve two water-bodies that are not meeting Water Framework Directive targets – in particular failing for fish where the classification has declined…