Sandbagged!

Sandbagged!
Photograph by Steve Barnett

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Buxton

The good folk of Buxton are probably oblivious of the way they treat their river, MY river!

 
 
Here for a short length the Derbyshire Wye comes out of a concrete and stone walled tunnel and a few trout manage to eke out a living here below these twenty feet high walls. Ten yards down from the discarded supermarket trolley it is put into another concrete tunnel then, when it comes back out into the light, it is part of a sewage plant and from there on for half a mile it runs in a concrete channel with no life in it.

It is, however, a miraculous river as, at the end of the concrete channel, there is gravel and Ranunculus fluitans, which with the additional water from the many limestone springs in its bed brings it back to life for the rest of its journey to the confluence with the Derwent at Great Rowsley 15 miles from the source.



Regular Rod

3 comments:

  1. Came past today on my bike and saw a trout with its nose one inch from the end of the concrete pad that runs past the sewage works. It doesn't take long does it.

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  2. Your English rivers are so stocked with history (and Trout) that every bend offers a picture worthy of fine art.

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  3. My little river too has a part that runs past Sainsburys. We get our share that the locals drag out every season. I blame the kids but is it always them?

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