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 West Dorset AONB 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.
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 clear them up; secured a new pump at the Horn Bridge pumping station which had been causing problems for some time. There is plenty more to do.
