River Wey
Burpham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Location created by
Kat Kavanagh
- Group: Zero Guildford : River Wey at Guildford
- Site ID: GB106039017630/T090/SEQ610
- Lat: 51.257727
- Lng: -0.5606591
- Waterbody Type: River
- Timezone: Europe/London
Latest photos
Many birds flying around, lots of damselflies, Duck with Ducklings.
Building work and development continue to progress on oppersite river bank.
Very strong smell of Sewage
We saw, All the boaters from the Kayak Club, narrow boat and the Swing Bridge boat.
Heard a woodpecker !
R-Card Used
Apart from Sewege smell we could also see and smell the landfill site oppersite. Saw Red Kites flying around. A lot more trees and scrub on the oppersite river bank cut back in preperation for new development.
The River Bank oppersite where we test Down Stream at Slyfield, has now been stripped back from all its trees and Riverside Scrub and plants, clearing the way for the development that is taking place there. It currently looks extremly stark.
Tests over detection limit >4,840CFU/100mL
Discharge from sewerage works, frothy and scummy
Fishing line on path
2 diving birds, grebes ?
3 kites over Slyfield, crows mobbing them
Both Total Coliforms and E.coli were above detection limit with 50% dilution. Reading >4839.2CFU/100mL.
Total coliforms were both above the range: >2419.6 CFU/100mL.
E. coli reading was a reading of 2419.6CFU/100mL. (1 small well was not fluorescent).
E. coli using Fluidium. IDEXX Colilert read >2419 CFU/100mL