Himalayan Balsam: 2022

Sept 14th > All Clear along the bund

General: Work covers some 18 acres of wetland and adjacent areas that stretch some 1.1Km along the river. Areas are labelled {1,2,3 and 4} and are numbered from, north to south (1&2), south-west (3) and west (4)

Area 1

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Area 1: The Far Fields inc. Riverland Trust

Area 1 is partitioned as follows:

  1. yellow Part of the top field east to the drainage channel of the lower field.
  2. green This is the lower field, between west, south and east drainage channels.
  3. blue The line indicates the western edge of the bund.
  4. orange Area 2

Diary

  • November 4th
    Area 1 yellow : 1 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields
  • September 22nd
    Area 1 yellow : 11 9 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields 2 spreading in from Trekensa
  • September 11th
    Area 1 yellow : 43 23 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields including approx 6 from the slope below to the drain [BIG~Seed popping] and 18 from spreading in from Trekensa
  • September 1st
    Area 1 yellow : 25 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields. At least 6 from the slope below to the drain [BIG~Seed popping]
  • August 23rd
    Area 1 yellow : 49 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields
  • July 27th
    Area 1 yellow : 54 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields
  • July 1st
    Area 1 yellow : 40 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields
  • June 13th
    Area 1 yellow : 149 From the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields
  • May 19th
    Area 1 yellow : 42 Small from the 'new' patch on the upper part of the far fields

Area 2

area2
Area 2 from damaged drain ~ south to turning inlet ~ north

Reason for the grid

Area 2 covers three major problems, which may not be the last, namely

  1. The large patch of Japanese Knotweed (E8)
  2. The failure of the bund by the Japanese Knotweed (E9)
  3. A major break in the bund (F3/F4)
    The southern end of Area2 is 35m from the drain that separates the lower fields Area2 and Area3 or 25m from the damaged bund drain.

Diary

  • August 23rd 5 3 from D0 and two from Trekensa
  • August 6th 7 F3
  • August 6th 4 F0
  • July 26th 1 F6
  • June 1st 21 D0 on the slop from Trekensa.
  • Apr 29th 1 E8 on the riparian south side of the bund.

Area 3

Area 3
Area 3 id from the boat to the, now damaged, drain outlet

  • September 11th 16 12 In the east corner just off the drain going NW~SE 4 river edge just south of large felled willow

Area 4

is 7 acres of reed bed and carr that stretches west from the boat.

Area 5

is the small triangle field