howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Informative stuff Ray but the vegetation traps all the litter thrown in, WCCP and their army of volunteers do a monthly clean up but are fighting a losing battle.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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Watch this space!
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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With thanks to Ray and the River Dour Partnership, I was able to join a visit hosted by the Homes & Communities Agency to see the Buckland Mill development. As you can see from the attached picture, this development really will uncover this part of the River Dour. The conversion of the old mill buildings looks stunning, and I can confirm that the river was wonderfully clean. Volunteers from the River Dour Partnership and White Cliffs Countryside Partnership are doing a great job with their regular river litter picks. We all have a role to play in ensuring that this important green artery is not damaged by litter and pollution.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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I saw a rabbit sitting amongst the rubble there yesterday afternoon, never seem one there before.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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probably from the railway enbankment and church yard.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Must feel safe there, if it moved to Aycliffe it would be in Brian's freezer within hours.
Incidentally is St Andrews still a working church?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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as far as I know howard,but its a bit hard to track down the priest.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The photo of the river looks awful - full of thick weed with rubbish; it actually looks like someone has chucked up on it.
Roger
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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Roger,
That's due to a selective viewpoint, the river was flowing fast in the foreground that you can't see.
What you are describing is a deliberate design feature, a wetland nature reserve that is designed to be like that to encourage wildlife! I'll invite on out next trip so I can explain it better.
St Andrews church was open this morning when we took refuge in it during a downpour interrupting a WCCP walk along the river from the docks to Kearsney - some brave souls ignored the remnants of hurricane Bertha and turned up so we had to get on with it, and of course the sun came out just as I got home.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Ray.
Whoever took the photo, perhaps should have taken more of the flowing foreground, than the non-moving pile of weeds/plant-life.
I have met with the EA a couple of times down by Barton Path and they explained the need for bio-diversity, but I said then, that there doesn't (surely) need all that static weed build-up which catches things thrown into the river.
Canterbury has a very healthy river with very little rubbish/weeds in it (at least it looks that way every time I've been over there), why do we have to have so much plant-life in ours ?
Sorry you got caught in the rain for your walk.
Thanks again Ray.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Environment Agency decide what vegetation stays or goes as you probably know anyway Roger, it is up to local councils to clear litter from rivers. Ours doesn't and the volunteers from WCCP do what they can.
Talking about volunteers another winner from the Castle Street Area Society.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Howard, yes - I did know about EA and plant-life.
Well done the Castle Street Area Society.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Lots of interesting info there about the river. Good to see the flowers thriving too.
Of course summer isn't all sunshine and flowers..if only. What's that they say, the English Summer = two hot days and a thunderstorm and we have had plenty of those. This picture is from thursday when the latest batch of thunderstorms rolled through, all a-flashin and a-growlin and a-rumbling. Believe it or not this is a colour picture taken late morning...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Cloudy when i was down their earlier but nowhere near as bad as in the photo above.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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This was the seafront yesterday in the cooler sunlight. Bit of a breeze whipping through, enough to make a chap contemplate the alarming prospect that the end of summer might be approaching. Sigh! Pretty soon we will be needing a thread for autumn.The wild flowers in the foreground are mostly all gone now as you can see, returned to scrub, but while they flourish they look a treat.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
"The wild flowers in the foreground are mostly all gone now as you can see, returned to scrub, but while they flourish they look a treat."
What a shame now they look a complete mess which makes that bit look neglected.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes Jan it might be a good idea to have some sort of little marble weatherproof plaque fixed into the ground saying these are natural experimental gardens, that kind of thing...this would inform one and all particularly when the gardens are off-season.
Some flowers at the Gateway flats yesterday looking seaward.
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