{"id":3080,"date":"2025-10-14T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castco.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=case-study&p=3080"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:18:07","slug":"upper-mersey-catchment","status":"publish","type":"case-study","link":"https:\/\/castco.org\/case-study\/upper-mersey-catchment\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Mersey Catchment: Collaborative Monitoring Focused on Citizen Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Upper Mersey Catchment Partnership (UMCP) set up the Tame Working Group as a subgroup to focus on developing and monitoring the River Tame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mersey Rivers Trust (MRT) has chosen the River Tame as a location for establishing a long-term citizen science monitoring programme using River Guardians and a target river for urban river restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The River Guardians have been working with United Utilities staff in the newly-created River Ranger posts to trial a new way of collaborating with the local water company on environmental issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The urban river restoration includes installing large woody debris, tree planting, planting macrophytes, and INNS clearance along the River Tame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The River Tame flows through three local authority areas, has many stakeholders, and has a history of industrial use and a heavily urbanised river catchment. As such, a long-term river restoration programme requires various habitat improvement approaches, all of which must be supported by data. Here, citizen science data supplements the Environment Agency (EA) and United Utilities data to create a whole river overview. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n

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