River Detectives Workshop – River Trym, Bristol

Many of our rivers across the Avon catchment are in poor ecological condition. With the help of water quality data collected by our team of River Detective volunteers, we are able to monitor their condition, helping us to focus our river restoration projects on the areas that need it most.

Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) are running a free training workshop at 7:00pm on Thurs 18 July on the River Trym at Coombe Dingle. During the workshop, volunteers will be shown by members of the BART team how to collect water samples taken from the river and be given their own water quality testing kit to take home and use as part of our on-going River Detectives volunteer program.

Participants are welcomed from all backgrounds, with no previous experience of volunteering, or river monitoring being required.

River Detectives is BART’s leading citizen science project and involves volunteers across local communities conducting long-term water quality monitoring of key sections of our local rivers. At present, we especially need more River Detective volunteers to monitor areas of the River Trym and Hazel Brook. More can be found out about River Detectives project here.

If you would like to attend the training evening at 7:00pm on 18 July, please sign up here.

If you have any questions, or are interested in becoming a River Detective but cannot make the workshop, please contact Dan, and we may be able to make alternative arrangements.