Misconnected pipes and drains are a major threat to UK rivers and seas – plumbing misconnections can contribute towards pollution so it is important to be aware of what to look out for. Throughout the UK there are thousands of homes with misconnected drains, which create large problem for maintaining clean rivers and healthy wildlife.…
We have reached 60 Riverfly Partnership monitors! These volunteers each sample their site once a month, monitoring invertebrates as indicators of water quality. They help us to gain a long term dataset on the health of rivers, as well as identifying pollution incidents to enable response by the Environment Agency. Click here to find out more about our…
BART are really proud to announce that we have reached the £1 million mark for lifetime funds raised for river restoration and education work! (Plus a huge amount more bought in from partners in joint projects). From humble beginnings six years ago with a few anglers, saddened at the decline of the Bristol Avon and…
BART are pleased to announce that we now own our own set of electrofishing kit. BART has been conducting electrofishing surveys for some time with partners, however we have now been able to raise sufficient funds for our own equipment. Electrofishing is a fish surveying technique combining a mixture of electrical current with a known…
Thank you to all of our 424 wonderful volunteers for your efforts in monitoring for us this year. You can find out the results of the 2019 Waterblitz below! You can also explore the data further on the interactive map. What do the results show? What do these results mean for our freshwater environments?…