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	<title>Living River</title>
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	<description>Living River is helping conserve the River Avon</description>
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		<title>East Chisenbury</title>
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The work is complete  &#8211; and just in time before the recent rain.
However 9 ponds, 12 berms, 1 digger, 1 inflated life jacket, a million photographs, and 600 meters of restoration later and it is all worth it.
To find out more go to  http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/news/threecol.aspx?id=4718
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		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Rivers on the Edge – new film about chalk streams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rivers on the Edge is a 6 minute film commissioned by WWF and produced by Charles Rangeley-Wilson, well known presenter of TV series The Accidental Angler. 
The film focuses on what Charles refers to as “the ultimate rivers” – English chalk streams. It aims to make the link between the water we use in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=139</link>
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		<title>England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative (ECSDFI) is a project that was  launched in April 2006, funded by Defra and delivered by the Environment Agency and Natural England. There are 50 priority catchments in England, where we are working with farmers to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture. The Avon is one of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<title>East Chisenbury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over half way through the project now and all is going to plan so far.
The new gravel berms at the top of the stretch are complete and although the ground is quite bare now it won&#8217;t take long for the bank of seeds in the soil to start growing.
The ponds look excellent and will provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Another Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The water level on the River Avon is not just dependant on rain fall – there are many control structures on the river that hold water back or direct the water on a different route.
For several years now, the Water Level Management Plan team at the Environment Agency in Blandford have been working to improve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Monday October 5th &#8211; the digger arrives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting work on the gravel berms at the top of the restoration stretch. After some false starts we strike gold &#8211; well gravel! And the work begins. It is suprising how quickly the river starts to re-energise after the berm narrows the water flow in the channel. 
The next few days will start to shape [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Restoring the Upper Avon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new river project has started this week at East Chisenbury, a village south of Pewsey, where The Wessex Chalk Streams Project (WCSP) are restoring a 600m stretch of the River Avon to improve it&#8217;s biodiversity. Ruth Clarricoates the WCSP officer is working with Cain Bioengineering Ltd on the work funded by the Environment Agency. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Update from our man in Brisbane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have now heard from Martin, our man in Brisbane, Australia, that the Living River became a runner up for the Thiess International Riverprize. The first prize went to the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority in Canada – a project that aims to restore and protect the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Our man in Brisbane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are extremely excited that the Living River Project together with its sister project STREAM has reached the final of the Thiess International Riverprize. The prestigious prize is a competition which showcases excellence in river management with nominees all demonstrating leadership, innovation and commitment to sustainability.  The announcement of the winner and prize giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Lord&#8217;s Walk Amesbury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to staff from Qinetiq for a couple of hard afternoons work. They have been helping the side channel at Lord&#8217;s Walk by creating some riffles. This involves putting gravel in the river at some set points to make it shallower and speed the water flow up. The resulting conditions are ideal for Salmon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.livingriver.org.uk/blog/?p=124</link>
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