#Lewisham Council claims to care about our local rivers. Why is it failing to: Prevent the #RiverQuaggy being polluted by just 1 property for 3+ years? Respond promptly to us + the dossier we sent? Being mute and inactive over 1 polluting property doesn’t bode well for pollution of our rivers

More pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from 82 Manor Park, near where the river flows into Manor Park - the park. This latest spill was while we were taking people on a wade as part of Manor Park Friends’ Autumn Fete, Sun 12 Oct. We first reported this in June 2022… HitherGreen #Lewisham #SE13

Nappy fished out of the #RiverQuaggy

More pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from 82 Manor Park, near where the river flows into Manor Park - the park. This latest spill was while we were taking people on a wade as part of Manor Park Friends’ Autumn Fete, Sun 12 Oct. We first reported this in June 2022… HitherGreen #Lewisham #SE13

Look what we saw at the end of our wade in Deptford Creek. An elver - a young eel - hopefully making its way upstream to the restored stretches of the #RiverQuaggy and Ravensbourne to live, grow, hang out, and breed. Eels we’re once common in our local rivers - and Elverson Rd DLR is so named.

September in the rain. It’s 57 years since the Great Flood of 15th + 16th Sept 1968, when much of our area was under water. For more pics and info about the ‘68 deluge see the In Living Memory digital archive: sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemo...

Is it a bird? Is it a…? Come to the unveiling of Street Waders, Anna Reading’s striking sculpture inspired by the Great Flood of 1968, beside the #RiverQuaggy 11am - 12.30pm, Sat 13 Sept @ Plough Bridge Gardens, central #Lewisham, #SE13 5AF, along from St Stephen's Church + Police Station.

Mike Keogh and @pauldezylva.bsky.social from @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social spent a year cleaning up disposable vapes across Lewisham. Why are they so bad for waterways? Is the new ban working? www.salamandernews.org/has-disposab...

Roll on 1st June - when the ban on #disposablevapes starts. Just some of the hundred of #vapes + packaging we’ve taken off the streets, and from road verges, parks, rivers. Will the ban work? Do trading standards have the resources to check retailers? More on the ban www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

The loss of front gardens to hard surfacing and ‘bland-scaping’ is adding to flood risk, health-harming heat, and nature’s decline. Front Gardens Network meeting with presentations and discussion: Thursday 15 May, 12.30pm to 1.30pm cpre-london.eventcube.io/events/73478...

The BBC reports use of disposable vapes is dropping. Here’s our latest haul of vapes dropped on streets, in parks, on river banks and found in rivers. The drop continues… Disposable vape use falling in UK ahead of ban - BBC report www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greenwich councillors are asking residents what they think of the Thames Path as part of a review for a scrutiny panel. The survey asks residents how the path could be improved and how it can be better connected with local communities.

Lewisham Council says it WILL now deal with this pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from a home. We first reported this in summer 2022. Since then the EnvAgency Thames Water and #Lewisham have passed the buck. Our experience doesn’t bode well for residents/ others who may not know the system as we do.

Interesting. But as London’s rivers are in trouble for pollution and physical alteration reasons, not just due to sewage spills, will this money also be used to renaturalise rivers and others projects not involving sewage? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, in a once civilised space - an Ex Twitter or similar…

River Ouse in Sussex set to gain legal rights elflaw.org/news/histori...

UK Environment Secretary Steve Reed MP wants us to think that lots of development of questionable quality can be pushed through (without bothersome bats or newts!) and the UK’s depleted nature will be OK. Here’s what we said on our Ex Twitter feed. We’re still using the dead-zone for now…

“However, it is understood that a local action group, with an interest in re-naturalising the river corridor... wish to see firmer requirements set.” It’s slightly funny to see this description of us - at least we think it’s us!

Beavers cut costs and ‘red tape’. Of course they do. english.radio.cz/beavers-buil....

Govt too busy blaming bats & newts to get their facts right. Now, Rachel Reeves wants low nature zones: “‘crack on', get development built, so that things are still 'nature positive', but not in every particular site” This is why UK is among the most nature-depleted nations. Why bother any more?

Removing thousands of tiny polystyrene beads dumped into the #RiverQuaggy at #SutcliffePark #Greenwich. Painstaking work scooping particles from the river plus handpicking the tiny white balls from the surrounding river banks, soil, plants, and even clinging to tree trunks.

Some numbskull decided to dump loads of polystyrene in #SutcliffePark where the #RiverQuaggy feeds the woodland wetland. Τhis is high risk for wildlife from birds (resident + migrating) to water + soil quality because the tiny pearly particles get into the river and are trodden into the ground.

A year ago, on 8 Jan 2024, we removed 200+ bags from the #RiverQuaggy. They were full of medical and take away waste. Pics show the scene before and after. A person has been using the river as a dump since early 2023. Will 2025 see an end to this? #LeeGreen #LeeHighRoad #Lewisham

The government likes to blame the water companies for the sewage scandal. No longer. Ministers weakened regulations and the Environment Agency’s ability to track & trace pollution. Now, the govt has been investigated for allowing breaches to happen in the first place www.bbc.com/news/article...

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