Category: Environment

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Environment

Medway Swale Estuary Partnership

The  Medway Swale Estuary Partnership have now produced a very short questionnaire that they would love to get as many responses as possible from boat users in the Medway and Swale. The general aim...

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Environment / Peel Ports

River Medway – Oil Spills

As members are aware there have been a couple oil spills spotted on the surface of the River Medway between Gillingham and Chatham Marinas. Unfortunately, when Peel Ports have despatched the appropriately equipped vessel...

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Environment

Medway Swale Estuary Partnership

Dear All The  Medway Swale Estuary Partnership have now produced a very short questionnaire that they would love to get as many responses as possible from boat users in the Medway and Swale. The general...

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Environment

Volunteers needed to sample water quality

The problem of “black water” (sewage) pollution in our estuary is of increasing concern to boaters and conservationists. The Zoological Society of London and the Medway Swale Estuary Partnership are setting up a community-based...

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Environment

MSEP Water Quality Workshops, 1 March

One of the issues that the MSBA has been campaigning on for years is sewage from water company outfalls and houseboats, particularly where the latter are in large concentrations close to sailing clubs, such...

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Environment / History/archaeology

HMS Challenger, 150 years on

Exactly 150 years ago today, HMS Challenger departed from Sheerness on a quest to explore the world’s oceans. Three and a half years later the ship returned, bringing with it the largest collection of examples of life...