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Award-winning community group of volunteers from across Bromley Greenwich and Lewisham boroughs restoring, improving and protecting the River Quaggy and other local freshwaters.

Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG

Find out more about the #RiverQuaggy, our other local rivers + what’s needed to protect & restore them for all - at the Manor House Gardens Festival - Saturday 2O June. Pop by our stall for a chat, and to see if we can answer your questions or help in any other way. Get to know your local rivers.

Charter signed giving the River Wye the right to be pollution free www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx21820rn4o

River will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' by farmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pollution saga - 1 house, 1 river, 4 years. Read the saga of trying to get local councillors, council officers, the Environment Agency, Thames Water + others to act to prevent deliberate pollution of our local rivers. There’s a short version and a long story for the full detail. See: qwag.org.uk

If you saw the kingfishers in Oxfordshire on the latest David Attenborough BBC wildlife series #SecretGarden, you can also see these halcyon wild species on our local rivers right here in South East London - on much of the #RiverQuaggy and the #RiverRavensbourne

Have you seen it yet? New #RiverQuaggy sculpture in downtown #Lewisham. For more see the article on our website: www.qwag.org.uk Or qwag.org.uk/new-quaggy-s...

Pollution Update: Sunday 15 March Central Catford - chemicals being stored on the edge of the River Ravensbourne on the Waterlink Way near the Halfords / Wickes site at #Catford Bridge. The delta-shaped staining from the water outfall pipe is still going strong.

200+ bags of medical waste removed by QWAG from the #RiverQuaggy But is the person doing the dumping back in town? www.qwag.org.uk/200-bags-of-medical-waste-removed-by-qwag/

Not sure why there’s so much secrecy around this #Lewisham hospital heat pump scheme in #Ladywell Fields, on the #River #Ravensbourne. If there’s nothing to hide… www.salamandernews.org/2026-06-hosp...

It’s 10 years since the #RiverQuaggy was polluted with 4,000 litres of diesel qwag.org.uk/oil-on-troub... “The Quaggy is a much loved but much abused urban river that’s been mistreated for decades…. you can see the rainbow colouring of diesel on the waters. And you can’t mistake the smell.”

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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust will drill test boreholes for its ground source heat pump project in the designated nature conservation site (SINC) next to Lewisham hospital.

www.salamandernews.org

Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG

The Wye has become the first river in the UK to have a charter covering it from source to sea.

River Wye becomes first UK river to gain charter rights

www.bbc.co.uk

An ecologist says it'll take a generation for the River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover from damage done by farmer John Price

www.bbc.co.uk

Herefordshire river will take decades to recover from 'vandalism'