Our Vision is that:
The Colne Catchment is a place where people are working together to protect and improve the water environment for everyone.
Water is clean, plentiful and, sensitively managed, meeting the needs of all those that rely on its resource but enabling it to reach its full biological potential, supporting rich and diverse populations of fish, birds and other wildlife. The Catchment is a healthy, economically vibrant environment, creating a natural and attractive amenity for people to enjoy and improving social wellbeing for present and future generations.
Aims
Latest news
14/10/24
– News for Colne Valley Park north
Serious Pollution Incident at Maple Lodge Nature Reserve
The stream that runs into Maple Lodge Nature Reserve has been seriously polluted.
13/10/24
– News for River Chess
Latest news from Chilterns Chalk Streams
Take some time to read up on the work being done by the Chiltern Chalk Streams project under the Chess Smarter Water Catchment, the citizen science work in particular is amazing and relevant to the whole catchment.
10/10/24
– News for River Chess
Abstraction to resume in the Upper River Chess
The River Chess Association are very concerned that abstraction is to resume and put out a press release on 1st Oct 2024: entitled 'Disastrous Resumption of Damaging Abstraction in the Upper Chess'.
Catchment areas of the River Colne
Roll over the map to highlight the individual catchments, click to visit the action plan for that catchment.
You can help in many ways: from saving water at home to more hands-on practical work with the rivers themselves. You may also have ideas about new or existing projects – we would like to hear them!