Malvern Hills National Landscape
A fantastic visit to Netherley Estate today for an event organised by the Royal Forestry Society – RFS. We learnt about how the woods on the estate are managed and discussed different options for managing an old area of plantation. We ended up at the site of an historic orchard which was recently planted up with more than 60 new trees under the #farminginprotectedlandscapes programme. It was great to spend some time with a group of professionals discussing the management of this wonderful part of the Malvern Hills National Landscape.
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Water companies have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent times. However, a bit of local good news can be found in the graph below showing a significant and sustained drop in phosphate levels in the brook downstream of the Severn Trent Water sewage treatment works below West Malvern.
The improvements follow from a recent reedbed regeneration project and a phosphate permit being introduced at the works. A big thank you to local landowners for monitoring the water and to the Severn Rivers Trust for its support of this citizen science monitoring work in the area. There’s still so much to do to improve our water quality but this is good news.
Data on water quality from the Severn Rivers Trust available at: river-teme-water-quality-theriverstrust.hub.arcgis.com/pages/fdaadc04db204b73960d2393cca44f31
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Great to see this shared! We’re really pleased to be supporting the citizen science work here and proud of the local volunteers and landowners helping track these improvements. Still a long way to go, but this is a great example of what targeted action and collaboration can achieve 🌿
Great to see some good news. Well done to all the water monitors who include Colwall Orchard Group volunteers.
