Exceptional High Tides Warning
Peel Ports have issued a Notice to Mariners regarding the highest tidal predictions of the natural 19 year astronomical cycle. There will be a number of exceptionally high (and low) tides during the period...
Category: Environment
Thames Marine Mammal Survey surprises
Have you been reporting sightings of marine mammals to ZSL? This report shows there are surprising numbers in the Thames Estuary, which includes the Medway and Swale for these porpoises… If you see a...
Hoo Island to receive massive quantities of soil
Anyone passing Hoo Island will have noticed the earth moving machines and lorries. It has emerged that Peel Ports have arranged to accept massive quantities of spoil material from works to replace London’s Victorian water...
Seal spotted at Allington Lock
This young fellow was seen resting on the frame of the sluice gate of the weir adjacent to the lock. Another seal was seen in 2008 swimming as far up as East Farleigh lock,...
Kingsnorth turbine hall to be demolished this week
Crowds are expected to watch on Thursday 9 July at 1pm when the former coal-fired power station’s huge turbine hall will be demolished in a controlled explosion. The massive chimney is expected to come...
Hoo Peninsula chosen for transnational GIFT-T project
For the past three years our partner the Medway Swale Estuary Partnership has worked alongside Medway Council on GIFT-T, a transnational project, to bring together local communities and businesses, through the development of bottom-up...
Small earthquake in Kent, not many dead
A quake registering 4.2 on the Richter scale was felt in an area from Kent to Essex last night at about 3 am. Police reported many calls from Thanet, though Ramsgate remains unharmed. According...
Faversham Creek Basin Dredging Application
The proposed works are to restore the Basin as a working resource in the centre of Faversham, to enable traditional vessels such as Thames Barges to be berthed, restored and maintained there. This is...
DEFRA includes Swale as MCZ in second tranche
Defra has published a consultation on the second tranche of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) today, inluding the “Swale Estuary.” At first read, boating and angling are not likely to be affected but there are mysterious...
North Kent Catchment Improvement Group – can you help?
Mark Loos of the Medway Swale Estuary Partnership asks us to look at this tentative list of projects that came out of the recent consultation. He would be most grateful if you could forward...
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