Update on HEAT’s River Brett project

Citizen science on the river!

On 10th April 2022, 10 Hadleigh HEAT volunteers were trained and certified in the techniques of River Fly Larvae/invertebrate monitoring, as defined by the River Fly Partnership. https://www.riverflies.org/. This training was funded by a local Hadleigh Town Council grant. The technique allows a systematic approach to monitoring the river’s quality on month by month basis and feeding results into a national database that is recognised by the Environmental Agency. Now with 11 people trained (in total) the sample points can be expanded from 2 to around 6, and will extend from Chelsworth to Shelly.