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.
River will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' by farmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An ecologist says it'll take a generation for the River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover from damage done by farmer John Price
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
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...
Charter signed giving the River Wye the right to be pollution free www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx21820rn4o
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...
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.”
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.
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
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/
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
The Wye has become the first river in the UK to have a charter covering it from source to sea.
