CRKC 2025 Action Plan
The Clean River Kent Campaign will focus on the following priorities for 2025:
Political:
- Explore legal pathways to challenge pollution
- Contribute to national initiatives and consultations
- Produce position statement re. water industry reform
- Maintain active links with national and local campaign groups
- Maintain and extend active links with local MPs, councillors
- Keep abreast of / informed about policy issues
Local Engagement:
- Hold a seminar on Rights of the River to explore the concept of what it means, to whom
- Explore opportunities for bathing status, as part of a ‘green/blue masterplan for Kendal’
- Attend Clean Water Clean Streets meetings (Staveley & wider Kent) to ensure United Utilities / agencies deliver required infrastructure changes
- Deliver campaign ‘What you can do to help river Kent’ (septic tank owners, pet owners, householders) including marketing materials, talks, events
- Maintain active links with local organisations/collaborate on activities including Lakeland Canoe Club (LCC) & Westmorland Angling Association.
- Deliver presentations, seminars, talks on request
- Support relevant education initiatives
- Engage with Natural Kendal nature recovery activities, including their River Festival
Citizen Science:
- Keep abreast of technical developments and evidence
- Attend Kent Working Group
- Engage with EA, NE, Kent Working Group to collaborate on monitoring data, share information and hold partners to account
- Develop and deliver a reactive / proactive testing programme (focus on P and coliform bacteria) with local volunteers (eg. around WwTws / hot spots)
- Collaborate in and/or establish further research/studies as appropriate
- Maintain and upgrade interactive map
- Promote partners’ practical monitoring/conservation work to CRKC volunteers