BART have been busy over the last few months undertaking a variety of river surveys on Duchy of Cornwall estate land near to Bath, including:
- In-stream and riparian habitat surveys
- Surrounding land use investigations to assess impacts on water quality.
- Water quality monitoring
- Macroinvertebrate surveys
- Macrophyte surveys
- Riparian tree surveys
BART’s Aquatic Scientist Jess running water quality tests with BART volunteer Jenny.
Findings from these surveys will be used to create recommendations for improvement works to both in-stream habitats and surrounding land use.
Assessing land use, riparian shading and other factors on the Corston and Newton Brooks.
We are grateful to the Duchy Estate for supporting us in this research and for their enthusiasm to protect our rivers.
BART are able to complete these and a number of other types of surveys throughout the Catchment. If you own or rent land with a river or stream, please feel free to get in contact if you would like to arrange a site visit and/or discuss survey and improvement opportunities by emailing harriet@bristolavonriverstrust.org
