This story map shows the River Corran with water collection results (Red marker), any blockages spotted (Blue marker).

As swallows gather on wires and the joyful trilling of greenfinches continues unabated, it really isa good time to count our blessings. This spring and summer, with the help of the excellentMerlin app, I’ve been counting birds. This has resulted in large spreadsheets indicating what’s been ‘heard’ by Merlin and seen/heardby me. I take our old dog for a slow walk or my daughter’s much sprightlier hound for a longerone. Either way, I’ve been spending more than an hour a day on

Travels with my App - up and down The Lane (Horsepool Road) - continue as the seasons turn. A too-mild start to the month soon gives way to spells of finger-numbing cold, mist, some hard rain, named storms and lots of Welsh sunshine, commonly known elsewhere as: drizzle. October starts with a final flourish of swallows and house martins. Gone too are the whitethroats and flycatchers. There are far fewer flies but the wasps persist. Fewer flowers too, barring some late-bloomin

Monthly Water Quality Assessment & Incident Review (Glogue Catchment)Laugharne Citizen Science Group 1. Monthly Summary & Incident Review This report provides a review and comparative assessment of the water quality data gathered across the River Taf in November 2026 at Glogue, Login, Whitland Church, the Water monitoring station, and Llandowror. Testing was conducted Testing was conducted yesterday and we had a local report indicating that a tanker of agricultural slurry had

Laugharne Estuary Water Quality Report — October 2026 Monthly Incident Analysis & Working Hypothesis on Road Sewer Main Leak 1. Executive Summary & Survey Context The October 2026 water quality survey for the Laugharne Estuary, conducted on 29 October, recorded marked shifts across several core chemical parameters. Upstream Total Ammonia at Path by Steps returned to below detection limits (0.00 mg/L), whereas Low-Range Nitrate (NO3-N) sampled adjacent to the reported pipe fra

The LARC Committee would like to invite you to attend a talk on Friday 13th November, at 7pm, in the Llanteg Village Hall. Our speaker will be by Elen Hall who works for the South Wales Trunk Road Agent (SWTRA). The SWTRA is responsible for managing, maintaining and improving the strategic road network in South Wales which includes 900 carriageway kilometres of trunk road and motorway and its associated assets. One of these trunk roads is our very own A477! As their biodiv

Here is our monthly water report update from the Laugharne Citizen Science Group for October 2026! By comparing October’s results against our year-round data, we get a clear picture of how autumn rain, agricultural run-off, and seasonal changes are impacting our aquatic ecosystems. River Coran (Abercorran to Newbridge) The overall picture along the main part of the River Coran this October shows stable water clarity, good oxygenation, and a welcome recovery in pH levels, but

Monthly Assessment and Comparative Analysis. This report provides an analysis of the water quality data collected across the River Taf in October 2026 at Llandowror, Whitland Church, Login, and Glogue, with comparisons to results from September2026 and earlier months. Sampling was conducted across four locations this month, with no data recorded for the Water monitoring station. Water temperatures continued their seasonal decline across the catchment in October, reflecting ty

The third location for our invertebrate sampling is Mackerel Lake stream, a section upstream from the culvert on The Lacques. At first sight this did not look a promising location to find invertebrates, the flow was slow, the water level low and there were long sections choked with water weeds such as dropwort, figwort and watercress, amongst others, as well as being overgrown with brambles. Our little band of volunteers braved the thorns and risk of entanglement to enter any

Monitoring during September 2026 revealed an event across the Laugharne Estuary, reversing August’s clean baseline. Initial testing on 18 September recorded a Phosphate surge (1.34 mg/L) and an acidic drop in marine pH (6.9). Targeted re-testing on 21September at 15:30 recorded an Ammonia spike of 1.64 mg/L at Frog Rock (SN 30516 10348,~40m from the STW outfall). We have asked NRW and Dwr Cymru to investigate. Key Findings from 21 September 2026 Follow-Up Acute Ammonia Spike

Spring and summer bring a lively chorus of bird songs and the flutter of wings along the River Corran. This season, I have been using the Merlin app to track and identify birds during daily walks on Horsepool Road, a path that follows the upper reaches of the river. These walks, whether short with our older dog or longer with my daughter’s energetic hound, have opened a window into the rich variety of birdlife in this area. The experience has been rewarding, revealing both th

Found this on the NRW dataset site. I have added their widget to the site here . The 2026 report/figures should be out mid November. From this dataset, ranking the 78 EXCELLENT-rated beaches by their combined bacterial levels (95th-percentile E. coli + intestinal enterococci — lower is cleaner), the five cleanest in Wales for the 2025 season are: Freshwater West (Pembrokeshire) — E. coli 11.8, IE 11.8 Marloes Sands (Pembrokeshire) — E. coli 11.8, IE 12.8 Lydstep (Pembrokeshir

This report provides an analysis of the water quality data collected across the River Taf in September 2026 at Llandowror, the Water monitoring station, Whitland Church, Login, and Glogue, with comparisons to results from August 2026 and previous months. Water temperatures decreased across the river network in September, reflecting the seasonal transition into early autumn. Downstream temperatures along the lower stretch were recorded at 16.5°C at Llandowror, 15.7°C at the Wa

Catchment Monitoring :Monthly Comparative Analysis | River Corran & Mackerel Lake Stream 1. Mackerel Lake Stream Catchment This catchment covers Llandawke, Broadway Caravan Park, and the Culvert bypass. Due to dry conditions, Llandawke had no water and remained unsampled in September. Ammonia (Good): Broadway Caravan Park registered 0.22 mg/L (up from 0.02 mg/L in August), while the Culvert remained at 0.00 mg/L. Although Broadway experienced an increase, it remains below the

Once again, our intrepid volunteers placed themselves on the riverbank and in the river at the Kiln Lane location – many thanks to Jenny for the use of her garden. With a group of six, a portable table, and some hard-won experience under our belts, both sampling and counting was much easier and quicker than our first foray. The weather was calm and sunny, which made for a pleasant time overlooking the fields from under the shade of the trees. Also, despite the very long dry s

Welsh water have a storm flow map which is updated daily on releases. I have started monitoring these releases to try and work out the pattern- if there is one. And why they happen- given no storms for the last 3 months. This is a image of the area where welsh water have works or storm overflows in the area which ends up in the Taf and so the estuary. The paler symbol in the above screen grab is a overflow that has released in the last 24 hours. I will update the spreadsheet

Before and after at the top of Stoneway and after at the bottom - large collection of plastics bottles cans and rubbish including the grit bin that has been emptied of waste.