Tributary of Classford Brook, next to Normandy Pond (no link at this point)
Normandy, Surrey, United Kingdom
This is a very straight section of stream that runs between Normandy Pond and the A323. It is not much more than a ditch. Ferns grow along its edge and it has a stony bottom
The surrounding vegetation is wooded.
At this point, there is no link between the pond to the north and the stream. The pond overflow goes into the stream about 30m downstream.
The stream sources are the springs at the edge of the sandy ranges to the North of Normandy and the clay.
WTW is clan.dwarves.lamenting.
the sample point is roughly opposite a bench beside the Pond where the stream is easily accessed.
Kick-sampling with children has found a lot of dragonfly larvae, freshwater shrimp and cased-caddisfly larvae here as well as a bullhead fish.
Location created by
Philippa Mitchell
- Lat: 51.2563606
- Lng: -0.6707553
- Waterbody Type: Stream
- Timezone: Europe/London
Latest photos
Water had been at least to the banks, but is now dropping
Had been bank-full 3 days before survey, with strong smell of sewage about 20 upstream of test point. This is near a culvert outfall and there was known to be sewage overflow due to blocked foul sewer within 50m of the culvert and associated ditches.
After the rain (first in at least a week), the water was very silty, orangy brown and this made it hard to test Nitrates and Phosphates. There did not appear to be any change in colour from the original water taken from the stream, hence the 0. However, very hard to actually make a judgement. See images.
Upstream of this point there are parts of the stream that carry a lot of iron oxide material. After rain it seems that this may be washed downstream.
Similarly the Alkalinity and Hardness were odd colours, almost to zero.
Water flowing fine, but pretty low.
Water quite brown, but still clear.
Had first rain in about a week on previous day, but only about 4mm
(on Sat 27 night rained again about 28mm)
Water had a yellowy-brown tinge and muddy smell.
2 days after stream was bank full. Water has a yellow-brown tinge.
Water higher and faster than it usually is, but still clear.
On night of 4th January, this stream was over the banks due to high rainfall. The flow was powerful enough to dislodge a pedestrain bridge.
water higher than previous month due to heavy rain (approx 50mm) in previous 3-4 days
kicksampling at this point in July and August with groups of children and families has found large dragonfly larvae, shrimps, damselfly larvae, cased caddisfly larvae and a bullhead fish.