The first project funded through the Get River Positive initiative aims to increase the number of volunteers surveying water quality on Lincolnshire’s chalk streams.
In July the Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project (LCSP) delivered 2 successful training days to volunteers.
13 new volunteers were taught to survey our precious chalk streams for 8 key invertebrates. This is a national surveying citizen science project run by the Riverfly Partnership and uses invertebrate numbers as a way of monitoring water quality changes.
As part of this initiative the LCSP Monitoring Officer Will Bartle delivered the training and was signed off as an official Riverfly Partnership Tutor. The LCSP would like to thank Sally Hyslop from the Don Catchment Rivers Trust for all her help in mentoring and observing Will to complete his training.
The second day of training saw 5 existing volunteers trained in Extended Riverfly, a more in-depth surveying system which adds important information about sedimentation and flow changes. The LSCP would like to thank Arron Watson who delivered the training.
The funding has paid for all the necessary equipment to undertake their surveys, and the results have already started to come in!
Thank you, volunteers!
For more information see the LCSP website - Riverfly Surveying - Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project
