In 2015 Katrina Threadgill conducted her MSc Geography dissertation on different ways people value the Cober catchment. You can read the full report here: Mapping social and biophysical values of ecosystem services on a catchment scale: a case study of the River Cober catchment, West Cornwall. Kindly Katrina has also summarised her research and findings for this…
Loe Pool Forum’s partnership with Exeter University’s Centre for Geography, Environment and Society has enabled mutually beneficial research opportunities. Geography students are granted data access and assistance on real world catchment problems and Loe Pool Forum benefit from insightful and useful reports. One recent research collaboration has been on the issue of land use and its relationship with downstream…
Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose is located on the south side of Loe Pool and discharges its waste water into the Pool via a sewage sewage treatment plant on the Carminowe stream. In January 2015 RNAS Culdrose, in partnership with Kelda Water Services, completed a £2 Million investment in upgrading the sewage treatment plant. This is an…
The 28th of May 2015 was an extremely exciting day for Loe Pool Forum! After much organisation work by Tracey Hamston (Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust) and Laura Bailey (National Trust) the extremely rare Strapwort was re-planted to Loe Pool. We made a documentary film of the planting day, click here or on the image below…
At the heart of Loe Pool Forum’s (LPF) approach to addressing water environment risks is the idea of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM); “a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximise the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability…
The edges of Loe Pool used to be home to Strapwort (Corrigiola litoralis) a critically endangered plant now only found on the shores of Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve in Devon. Natural England’s Vascular Plants Taxon Group has identified the species as being at High Risk of becoming extinct by 2020. Unfortunately it became extinct…
Loe Pool has long been famous amongst anglers and conservationist for its wild trout. The population is genetically unique because over the centuries, as Loe Bar formed, the brown trout became separated from the sea and other trout populations. There is not all that much historical data on the fish populations in Loe Pool, although…
Dr Janet Dinsdale (our ecologist) with expert assistance from Kennack Diving have just completed the Loe Pool 2014 macrophyte survey, funded by Natural England’s Conservation Enhancement Scheme. Macrophtes are aquatic plants that grow in the submerged areas of lakes and provide cover for fish, invertebrates and produce oxygen needed for lake life. The Macrophyte population survey is…
With the exception of Helston the Cober Catchment is sparsely populated rural area. Many homes, if not most, in the middle and upper regions of the catchment will use a septic tank to manage their sewage. Phosphate is a nutrient present in sewage and posses a risk to water quality as it leads to algae growth. As you know, this…
Historically flooding in Helston has been linked to water backing up in Loe Pool lake and therefore led to the practice of ‘breaking the bar’, as explained on the Loe Bar page. You can keep an eye on the current level of Loe Pool lake here. Contemporary thinking in catchment management has re-focused the Forum’s attention…
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