Just over border into Dorset, there’s a very active set-up concerned with the quality of their waters. The River Lim Action group is part of the transition town group Turn Lyme Green – and as such has been doing very much the sort of work being carried out by […]

The History Group of the Sid Vale Association meets up every two months – when there is lively discussion on all manner of topics. The Sid River website regularly collects relevant pieces from the Notes from History Group meetings – and puts them together in specific pages on the History […]

What all the recent reports on the state of the River Sid have looked at is the need to have an accurate idea of how many fish there are – which needs all sorts of measuring and monitoring along the Sid, something which has been […]

Much has been written about the past, present and future of trout on the Sid – and perhaps even more about a possible fish pass  on the Sid. But whilst we wait for that to happen, how can we give migrating fish a (literal) helping hand […]

Here’s a video report from BBC Breakfast from a couple of months ago, looking at highways environment run-off pollution from roads into rivers: The EA said it recognised that run-off from highways and urban areas was a “serious issue” accounting for 18% of water quality failures […]

The River Sid Catchment Group’s Facebook pages are not only full of infectious enthusiasm about the River, but also give regular updates of goings-on, including this week’s announcement of funding for further engagement projects. And a recent engagement involved asking people what came to mind […]

This last week has seen the usual Two Bridges Road closed after flooding in Sidford, whilst tragically a dog drowned in the fast-flowing River Sid in the Byes park. Thankfully, earlier in the year, £1.4m of funding was awarded to prevent flooding from the Rivers Otter and Sid – with the focus […]

Last year, we were introduced to the specially-trained dogs sniffing out invasive crayfish in Devon reservoirs – called ‘River’ and ‘Sid’. These species [the crayfish and not the wonderfully-named dogs] are considered ‘invasive’ party due to human preference, but really because they were never in this […]

It’s good to be able to share some success stories. Fishing along the Sid was once a regular activity, but much less so today – and yet looking to how the very different landscape of the chalk stream waters of the Test and Itchen Rivers in Hampshire […]

‘Citizen science’ has been an important driver of work along the River Sid these last couple of years in particular – including the solid water monitoring project along the Sid conducted by teams from the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group and its now regular riverfly monitoring programme, as well […]