Information gathered by citizen scientists will help assess the health of the River Pang in Berkshire.
A riverfly monitoring project has launched in an effort to gather valuable river water quality data.The project will see a team of volunteers working in a partnership between Englefield Estate and Action for the River Kennet charity.
Dr Liz Mattison, the estate's education and environment officer, said: "You can't really plan to improve or restore any aspects of the river if you don't have any baseline information about what its current state is."Riverfly monitoring is a national citizen science initiative overseen by The Riverfly Partnership, where members of the public volunteer to help scientists collect valuable data.
ARK has been training land managers, river keepers and volunteers at workshops, enabling them to identify and count indicator species of freshwater invertebrates, to assess the health of Britain's river systems.Data from stonefly larvae and other types of riverfly can provide key biological indicators of river health
In July 2013, ARK riverfly monitoring volunteers were the first to discover what the charity described as a "catastrophic pesticide pollution event" on the River Kennet, in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
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