Himalayan Balsam: 2023

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. [A] yellow Part of the top field east to the drainage channel of the lower field. Update map to include strip alongside Trekensa
  2. [B] green This is the lower field, between west, south and east drainage channels.
  3. [C] blue The line indicates the western edge of the bund.
  4. [D] orange Area 2

Diary

  • October 29th: 1A 0 Only checked the patch on the slop to the drain
  • September 27th: 1A 73 around new patch 4 further north by the drain and 4 alongside Trekensa: Then 31 from Trekensa and 1 by the adjacent drain
  • September 9th: 1A 2214 around new patch 4 further north and by the drain (see July 26th) and 4 alongside Trekensa: Then 31 from Trekensa and 1 by the adjacent drain
  • August 23rd: 1A 6315 around new patch and 16 alongside Trekensa: Then 31 from Trekensa and 1 by the adjacent drain
  • August 22nd: 1A Just off the path, maybe a quarter of the way down from the north west
  • st 3rd: 1A 2214 around the 'new' patch and 8 along the boundary with Trekensa
  • July 26th: 1A 37north of the 'new' patch and down by the drain. Huge clearly a missed bunch
  • July 6th: 1A 27 9 from the 'new' patch and down to the drain and a bit north and 20 adjacent Trekensa
  • June 15th: 1A 190 Half from the 'new' patch and down to the drain and a bit north and half along the wall to the south adjacent Trekensa

Area 2

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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 22nd ? @ E8 and 1 @ F4
  • June 26th 3 @ F3 and 2 @ F2
  • June 14th None
Further areas sections hidden as no sightings for some three years