The talk on Coed Sancler, by Owain Grant is now 18:00 on Tuesday 9th

Laugharne Wastewater Treatment Works Future Plans On the 4th November Andrew and I met with four members of the Dwr Cymru (DC) team looking at the tree felling, vegetation clearance and cliff face stabilisation plans above Laugharne Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW). This was a very productive meeting on a number of fronts. We learnt quite a lot and we believe that we have made some good contacts for the future too. In detail then: 1. By way of context, it’s important to unde

We started monthly testing of the River Taf today. Anyone who want to help with water collection please let us know.

Charts below show a rolling 12 months results and also the comparison of Nov 24 to Nov 25. Before we collected water there has been 2 weeks of heavy rain , and the high nitrate could be due to the amount of slurry spread on fields before the closed period in mid-October.

Here are the twelve months results. As David said thanks to all the collectors and testers. We are planning to start the estuary and the River Taf soon- if you can volunteer, particularly with sample water collection (pairs of two required) please contact David or myself.

October meeting (on the 14th) will begin, at 6.30pm, with a talk by Folly Farm conservation officer Jack Gradidge about Harvest Mice....

A date for your diary is Wednesday October 8 when we are all invited for a tour of Coed Sancler, a community woodland on a near-three-acre site where an estimated 900 mixed broadleaf trees will be planted early this winter. We will meet the inspiration behind the project, Owain Grant, in the car park at the back of St Clears leisure centre at 10am . Please arrange to lift-share where possible and make sure you bring walking boots or wellies. Here are a couple of links to Owai

Septembers' water test results for the Corran and Mackerel Lake stream. No water at near Llandawke on the stream. You will see Ammmonia...

If your interested please do sign up here. It is the weekend 19-22nd September .

Drapertools have very kindly given us 12 Hand weeders and 6 long handled pavement weeders. If you would like to sign up the weeding group please email me. Training and tools will be provided. If we can keep the pavements weed free Carmarthenshire County Council have agreed not to spray Nomix Dual which contains Glyphosate

Here is a link to a pdf guide to wildlife in Laugharne . The Carmarthenshire Nature Partnership has produced this profile to highlight some of the wildlife, habitats, and important sites in your local area.

Please note there was no water on Mackerel Lake stream at llandawke and Broadway caravan park. Thanks as always to the volunteers who helped with collection and testing the samples. As we expand to testing the estuary and the River Taf more volunteers would be welcome. Please contact us if you would like to help.

Robert Macfarlane: Rivers Are Dying So Give Them Rights Radical with Amol Rajan Serious pollution incidents by water companies in England rose by 60% last year, but the best-selling author Robert Macfarlane says there is a way to save our rivers. Days after a long-awaited review of the water sector in England and Wales was published, Amol sat down with Robert for a conversation about the state of rivers globally, why some are dying and how we can save them. From President Don

We were given some kick sampling nets, trays and sorting trays by the NMB. This afternoon we were given a dem of how to use them by Kevin...

Charts below showing the latest results added of water collected today. There were cattle and sheep in the Corran near Glancorran. This...

Roll call/apologies: 1. Approval of June's minutes: 2. Matters arising: i) kick-sampling training dates, options ii) Township-wide...