Thanks Andrew!

I wanted just to congratulate everyone on a fantastic 1st working party. It was great to see what a few dedicated people and a couple of hours hard work can do. I was amazed at the amount of rubbish we pulled of the banks, on a relatively short stretch of river. I am not sure how many tonnes that skip held but it was full!
I also wanted to thank Andrew for all his hard work over the last few months. A true leader, he has managed to inspire us to get off our bums, and put something back! Without his efforts and environmental outlook this project would never have started, so thanks Andrew and well done mate!

Working-party Saturday 29-Mar-2008

At tonight's DNMAC meeting the committee approved the working-party and any member who attends will qualify for a £5 reduction in their re-joining fee next year.

Derbyshire CC Countryside Service has very kindly offered to us the use of their skip, their wheel-barrows and tea/coffee facilities at Mousley Bottom: thanks to Will Griffin and Paul Finn.

The various landowners are happy for us to access their land for the tidy-up:

 - New Mills TC

 - Derbyshire CC

 - Swizzels Matlow

The plan is to meet at Station Road for 10 am on Saturday 29-Mar-2008.

Please wear stout boots and bring suitable gloves if you have them. There is no plan to enter the river as Trout will have spawned and Grayling are in the process of or about to - we will have another working-party to tidy the river-bed during the high-Summer when the river is at its lowest level and there are no redds to disturb.

Brown trout make you smile!

Just thought I would post a picture of what the clean up is all about.....making brown trout happy....which make us happy!

Proposed working-party - River-walk 15-Mar-2008

On Saturday 15-Mar-2008 Patrick, Max, Breck and Andrew met to plan a working-party on the river. Starting at Waterside Road, Hague Bar and walking up as far as Station Road, New Mills. At the start of the walk, Hague Bar Meadows, and on through Mousley Bottom we found the expected plastic bags in trees following the winter flood, but there were only a few items of larger rubbish: a bicycle, a car tyre. Unfortunately once we got to Station Road we found much more of the larger stuff: piles of car tyres, road works signage, wooden pallets, et cetera.

We will propose a working-party for Saturday 29-Mar at the next DNMAC meeting: short notice but we need to get this tidy-up done before the temperature rises and those Olives start to emerge!