Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust
@OuseAdurRT
Followers
1K
Following
2K
Statuses
2K
The Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust (OART) is dedicated to the environmental protection and enhancement of the Sussex River Ouse, the River Adur and their tributaries.
South East, England
Joined February 2019
Throw ropes, defibs, EpiPens & buoyancy aids. We've had a deep dive into water safety training & outdoor first aid over the last week 💦👍🚑 Making sure our river & wetland restoration activities are safe as well as effective is a top priority 👌 See you at the river soon 🙌
0
0
3
Kicked off a great first River Ranger session today with 4 harvest mouse nests, Snipe, & Water rail!🐦 🐭 🚜 Bridge access cleared 🐇 Old rabbit guards removed 🥀Bramble & vegetation cleared from channel/pond margins Stream flowing well with new starwort & watercress 🌱💦
0
1
7
Great to see that our leaky barriers were still slowing the flow in ditches in Bedelands Nature Reserve today! 😀 Reducing peak flow, trapping sediment, improving water quality 👌
0
0
4
A great final River Ranger session of the year today. Two Peregrines, calling Water rail, Stonechats and Kestrels around us as we worked!🐦🦆🦅 🌳 75 hedge trees planted 🐇 Old rabbit guards removed 🥀Brambles cleared from channel margins Hedge and channel habitat looking fab
0
2
7
Fantastic to have 20 @uniofbrighton students out at our @EPIC_Sompting site today, learning about chalk streams, river restoration & practical habitat management 😀🦆🐟👍 Loads of bramble cleared & reeds cut. The brook is looking great after all the recent rain 💦🌱💪
0
8
14
Very happy that the elm trees we planted 4 years ago in partnership with @sdnpa at our EPIC project site are thriving! 🌳🌳🌳 Highly resistant to Dutch Elm Disease, hosts of the rare White-letter Hairstreak, and now about 12 feet tall! 🦋 #NationalTreeWeek
0
5
20
Managed to plant up 3 of our new pond and wetland areas in the Ouse catchment before the rain! Yellow flag iris, water mint, sedges, rushes, meadowsweat, purple loosestrife, blue water speedwell, water horehound & marsh marigolds amongst others. Starting to look the part!
0
2
9
Great day doing river management tasks at @EPIC_Sompting! 🐟 cutting back channel vegetation 🌾selecting plants to move to other wetlands 🌳planting trees in scrub zone 🌸 removing brambles from the wildlife pond 🚜 clearing access to silt traps Harvest mouse nests a highlight!
1
4
14
@lilyindiataylor @LewesDC @WestonFdn Hi Lily, if you are on our volunteers mailing list you'll get all the upcoming events. Send us an email if you'd like to join
1
0
0
A wonderful, sunny autumn day for making more leaky barriers to slow the flow!💦👍🌞 Fifteen debris dams & brushwood bundle structures installed in gulleys, streams & surface water pathways of Bedelands Nature Reserve. Many thanks to our awesome volunteers 🙋♀️ 😀 👏
0
1
7
@DogImaginary Natural flood management. Essentially slowing the flow of water into nearby streams through the creation of scrapes, leaky barriers, hedgerows etc
1
0
0
RT @Catherine4Broa1: The value of the work that @OuseAdurRT do cannot be underestimated. We live on a coastal flood plain and managing run…
0
2
0
The Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust gets a mention in this great BBC article on the benefits of river rewiggling & natural flood management 😀 💦🐟👌
0
4
15
RT @cbecUK: Brilliant result!! Thanks to all involved - we are so delighted to have been involved!
0
1
0
There's dedication to restoring rivers... and then there's THIS level of dedication!👏🌧🌬 😘 Our River Rangers were out in force despite today's wind & rain. Raise a glass to these utter champs 🏆 🥂💦🙌
1
7
27
A great week of John Muir Award school visits to our Sompting Brooks site, non-native species removal on the Lewes Winterbourne, and completing berms on the Worthing Teville stream! 💦🐟🌱🐸💪 #riverrestoration #INNS #environmentaleducation
0
1
7
Absolutely thrilled to win both the Landscape Design and People's Choice Awards at the South Downs Design Awards for the Cockshut wetlands project. Well done all involved @LewesDC @RailwayLand @VeoliaUK @cbecUK @EbsfordAquatics
2
4
20
RT @AlistairWhitby: A great effort this week! So lovely to be joined by kingfishers, sparrowhawks, shoals of rudd and stickleback, slow wor…
0
1
0
Fantastic effort from our volunteers getting 5 berms built on the Teville stream. These brilliant brushwood bundle & chestnut stake structures help enhance rivers: ✔️ trapping silt ✔️ creating marginal habitat ✔️increasing flow diversity & oxygen levels ✔️ creating fish habitat
0
4
11