Welcome
 

Join over 100 WRPS members in protecting our endangered chalk stream.

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Our aim is to restore all year round flow in the Wilbraham River.  This river passes through or by three SSSIs and a County Wildlife Site. It sustains local flora fauna and wildlife habitats.

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Over the last century increasing abstraction from the underlying aquifer for public water supply has reduced the groundwater level by up to 3metres. As a result in dry summer periods the natural springs feeding the river stop and the whole river dries up.

 

To compensate for this in the 1990s an augmentation scheme was developed - to allow even more abstraction - but the river has still been drying up.

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We are working with other river groups and the Environment Agency to improve the situation. In the next year we hope to have live river level monitoring on this website and we are investigating water quality sampling.