The Westcountry Rivers Trust has been actively involved in work along the River Sid – increasingly so since it looked at the River Otter & Sid a decade ago. They were commissioned in 2023 by the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group to carry out electrofishing on the Sid which the WRT have […]

Recently, the Environment Agency have been working at School Weir along the Sid removing a large bank of river stone – and at the same time they have ‘rescued’ the fish in the pool at the bottom of the weir. As reported by Ed Dolphin: Busy […]

All this week, the Environment Agency have been busy at School Weir. As reported on Sunday on the District Council social media pages, 🚜 From tomorrow (Monday)…  From tomorrow (Monday), the Environment Agency will begin removing a large bank of river stone from just below the […]

A very good place to go for information about the topography of the Sid Valley is the excellent Sidmouth Nature website: A guide to the wildlife and wild places in the Sidmouth area of Devon | Sidmouth Nature And, for example, the pages on The River Sid are […]

Generally speaking, assessing pollution in the Sid is about “the twin approach of pressure on water companies and citizen science” Whilst the River Sid is relatively pollution-free, other rivers in Devon are not so fortunate. For example, early last month, there was an incident on the River Lew, […]

There has been growing, concerted effort in giving migrating fish a helping hand up the Sid – including salmon and eels.  In particular, there has been a lot of interest over the last decade or so in creating a fish pass on the River Sid, to […]

The town of Sidmouth basically lies at the spot where the River Sid meets the sea. And indeed, often one of the most interesting parts of a river is where it meets the sea – with photos here of the mouth of the Sid. A full and fascinating […]

You would expect there to be regular references to the River Sid at the Sidmouth Folk Festival – water being very evocative and the themes of waterways a subject of music. Here are Martin Carthy and Sam Sweeney “rehearsing before their rapturously received collaboration at […]

It’s now a good year and a half since the new River Sid Catchment Group was established. They have achieved a lot since, including holding the River Sid Catchment Plan Public Consultation a year ago and getting the River Sid Catchment Plan endorsed by the Town Council and taken […]

This time of year there is not too much to worry about when it comes to measuring the River Sid. There is of course regular measuring and monitoring carried out along the Sid, by members of the SVBG’s team working with the Westcountry Rivers Trust and […]