River Wey

Further Down Stream we watched Narrow Boats go through Stoke Lock and the Guildford Kayak Club was running a 12 mile race down the River. They get out at the river by Stoke lock and carry their Kayaks while running over the foot bridge and then get back into the water at the wey navigation going down stream at Slyfield.
Our normal testing site at Slyfield Down stream, was completly overgrown with Nettles and Brambles and not accessable to collect water specimen. So we went further down stream to a place accessable and noted on our note book and whatsapp chat the new location with ' What 3 Words' coordinates, which was : //w3w.co/month.gather.couch Image above so you can easily find again.

Many birds flying around, lots of damselflies, Duck with Ducklings.
Building work and development continue to progress on oppersite river bank.
Very strong smell of Sewage
We saw, All the boaters from the Kayak Club, narrow boat and the Swing Bridge boat.

Heard a woodpecker !

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Apart from Sewege smell we could also see and smell the landfill site oppersite. Saw Red Kites flying around. A lot more trees and scrub on the oppersite river bank cut back in preperation for new development.

The River Bank oppersite where we test Down Stream at Slyfield, has now been stripped back from all its trees and Riverside Scrub and plants, clearing the way for the development that is taking place there. It currently looks extremly stark.

Tests over detection limit >4,840CFU/100mL

Discharge from sewerage works, frothy and scummy
Fishing line on path
2 diving birds, grebes ?

3 kites over Slyfield, crows mobbing them

Both Total Coliforms and E.coli were above detection limit with 50% dilution. Reading >4839.2CFU/100mL.

Total coliforms were both above the range: >2419.6 CFU/100mL.
E. coli reading was a reading of 2419.6CFU/100mL. (1 small well was not fluorescent).