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…
Loe Pool Forum works closely with Exeter University in order to ensure academic projects have ‘real world’ impact and to keep up with the latest research. In the following short video by Jamie Johnson et al from the Geography Department we hear about how environmental research is being used to understand aspects of past, present and future pollution. The video was…
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…
We have just dug this visually provocative project out the archives: The Water Treatment Plant. Bruce Davies is an Cornish artist motivated by the history of landscape and its changing use. Bruce undertook a year long (2007-2008) artist residency with the National Trust (NT). During this residency Bruce explored the issues of water pollution, visitor…
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…
We managed to get an article in the West Briton Newspaper! It is all about the preliminary findings from Timothy Walker’s research with the agricultural community in the Cober Catchment. Have a read here: Finding a way to help farmers while protecting our waterways Also, enjoy is the terrible ‘selfie’…
In December 2013 Geography students from University of Exeter were guided around Chyvarloe Farm bordering Loe Pool by Paul Parfitt (farmer), Jeremy Clitherow (HLS advisor for Chyvarloe farm) from Natural England, Dr Mike Leyshon and Timothy Walker from the University of Exeter. The students were studying how a sustainable farm works in contemporary Britain. In particular the role of…
In November 2013 University of Exeter students were guided around the the Cober catchment by Becky Hughes (Catchment Sensitive farming), Laura Bailey (National Trust) and Tim Walker (UoE PhD student). The aim of the exercise was to tell the story of water through the catchment. Here are some students looking at a Cober tributary Steve…
Here is one of the first articles the West Briton paper published about the eutrophic conditions in Loe Lake: Diversity of Lake Life is harmed by water pollution.
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