Useful Information

As the Watercress & Winterbournes Scheme comes to a close the W&W Team, primarily Kathyrn Bowler and Maggie Shelton, have brought together a invaluable collection of resources created and curated over the lifetime of Watercress & Winterbournes scheme. It contains useful contacts, training providers, guides, posters, leaflets, videos, examples and lots more. Do take a look.

Thank you W&W
we would not have got so far so quickly without your help

Before working in or near the watercourse volunteers must have completed a water safety online course. At the end of the course you can download a certificate which must be sent to the PBA Monitoring Coordinator at pilhillbrook@gmail.com to file for liability insurance purposes.

Useful resources for riverfly monitors all in one place coutesy of the The Riverfly Partnership. 

This species list has been made possible by the WildFish SmartRivers initiative and the hard work of Watercress & Winterbournes  (W&W) volunteers. The SmartRivers initiative involves carrying out detailed anaylsis and counts of what is found in a biannual kick sample taken from key sites within the W&W Test catchment. The SmartRivers key site on the Pillhill Brookshares its location with the  PBA Balksbury Park monitoring site.
The species list and embedded image indentfication links can be used to help PBA volunteers get more familiar with the invertebrate families that they may expect to find in our brook.