We’ve been all over the borough this April! Starting out at Cornmill gardens, located behind Lewisham Town Centre, we did a litter pick upstream towards Riverdale Sculpture trail. We removed a whopping 9 full bags of rubbish and a large shopping trolley from this section of the river. We also observed a large shoal of Chub and spotted one small European Eel slightly upstream of this park.
Lots of work has been happening in the east side of Beckenham Place Park, so it’s been a while since we’ve waded this section. We found some interesting things in the river including a collection of little plastic fish floating downstream towards, they were a bit brighter coloured than the fish we normally find!
Heading into the Quaggy later in the month, heading downstream from Manor Park to behind the Lidl on Lee High Street. Although still early in the growing season we did find a bunch of Himalayan Balsam, which we removed on our wade downstream.
Rivers and People 