{"id":434,"date":"2024-10-31T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castco.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=case-study&p=434"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:32:46","slug":"wensum-catchment","status":"publish","type":"case-study","link":"https:\/\/castco.org\/case-study\/wensum-catchment\/","title":{"rendered":"Wensum Catchment: citizen science helps resolve pollution issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the Anglian demonstration project for CaSTCo, partners in the Wensum Catchment Partnership, including Norfolk Rivers Trust, The Rivers Trust, the Environment Agency, and Anglian Water worked together with local volunteers to detect and gather evidence for a faulty septic system that was unknown to the owner. They set out protocols that allowed community monitoring to be rigorous and non-confrontational, pin-pointing the pollution source and remedying the issue. Norfolk Rivers Trust\u2019s volunteer coordinator organised and empowered the volunteers to test weekly before and after the location and before and after the solution was implemented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Together, the partners also validated the accuracy of the monitoring tools and implemented one of the first versions of a pollution reporting program and volunteer data platform to support the EA, prototyping many new ways for effective integration between community, environmental non-profits, government, and community.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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