Fox Wood Beck tributary of Wyke Beck
Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
This stream flows at the bottom of a wooded slope. One side is very steep, at the top is a car park, childrens play park, recycling skips and a bin. The other side is a wooded slope but less steep which leads to one of the main paths through Roundhay park. There are three CSOs that feed into Fox Wood Beck.
The testing site is to the right / upstream of a very large tree that has fallen across the stream.
The site is brambly and boggy.
If you walk upstream to you will see a very large pipe coming from under the road, which leads to the CSOs.
Location created by
Jane Stanbury
- Group: Roundhay Environmental Action Project and Friends of Roundhay Park : Roundhay Freshwater Watch
- Site ID: FWB
- Lat: 53.8372973
- Lng: -1.5025091
- Waterbody Type: Stream
- Timezone: Europe/London
Latest photos
At the outfall pipe there was discoloured blue water with foam and sewage rag, along with a drain smell. The water was still blue tinged at my testing site 100 meters down. It's being reported to the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water.
Lots of birds picked up on the Merlin app - nuthatch, chaffinch, green parakeet, goldcrest
At the testing site the water was clear. 100 metres up at the outlet pipe the water was bluish with foam and smelt like drain water, it still smelt like this about 50 metres down. There is usually rubbish coming down the steep bank (from the car park) and there was quite a lot in the undergrowth on the other side of the bank, like it might have got washed up there following heavy rain.
Foam by the CSO outlet - a suspected misconnection to be reported to Yorkshire Water
There was foam at the CSO outlet
Low water but CSO discharging, foamy around the area where the pipe feeds in. Lots of rubbish cascading down the steep bank where the bins/skips are at the top. ALso just rubbish in the undergrowth and in the stream. No rain for quite a few days.
Nitrate was higher than previously today
Lots of wild garlic - real garlic aroma. Wood anemone further up the bank by the path. Lots of what looks like periscaria on the ground.
Birds - tree creepers, long tailed tits, yellow wagtail flying along the watercourse.
Rat/water vole splashing about in the Beck - need to get a better look! It's usually there when I arrive.
Quite a bit of litter in the Beck today.
Squirrel
Tree branches fallen in the water