The River Lim Monitoring Project is using test kits funded by Lyme Regis Town Council and the Regatta and Carnival Committee. Training for the Riverfly monitoring (invertebrates) was funded by Dorset National Landscape with additional funds for equipment from the Town Council.
Our way of working is evidence based. We have carried out monitoring and tabled Freedom of Information Questions. We’ve got some national publicity for the data we revealed on the bacterial pollution in the River Lim which is shockingly high. You can read our first monitoring report.
We also succeeded in getting some of the pollution around Woodmead Road Bridge addressed; persuaded South West Water (with the River Char Group) that the biomeads in Charmouth originate from their Uplyme Sewage Treatment Works; got them to pledge help to clear them up; secured a commitment to improvements in the sewage infrastructure to reduce sewage discharges. There is plenty more to do.
