Dear Blogger
Message from Wendy Lowdon
Talks arranged by Sewish Creek in Shrewsbury
Thursday Evening talks : 7pm : The Alb, Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury
June 18th - Guy Pluckwell, Guy is a River campaigner, paddler and surfer. He has surfed Severn Bore! Guy will be sharing a River Friendly awareness campaign idea. Guy also works for the environment agency and will be able to help us with some of our (many) questions about that too.
September 17th - Roger Meade, retired Wetland Ecologist with conservation background who worked latterly in consultancy. Roger is active with CARP (communities against river pollution) from Bewdley and has been publishing papers to help save our beautiful river.
- River Severn Bridgnorth to Stourport OUTFALL SURVEY
- Good ecological status? The disturbing case of the middle Severn : Meade. R, Mike. A, and Pullman. British Wildlife Dec 2025 pp 183-189
November 19th - Larry Wolfe, Water engineer. Worked in the British water industry and then abroad. Larry is an expert in Sustainable Urban Drainage and will talk about how SUD's could transform how we manage surface water.
January 21st 2027 James Chapman from xylem Business Development Manager - Environmental Solutions | UK
January 21st 2027 James Chapman from xylem Business Development Manager - Environmental Solutions | UK
James is going to talk xylem's work installing continuous monitoring of water quality upstream and downstream of all their sewage outfalls and storm overflows required by recent (English) legislation from DEFRA (Environment Act 2021). The programme of installing these monitors started last year and has to be concluded by 2035, and the data collected by them has to be made publicly available by March 2030.
