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Cottringer, who is a member of the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Yazor Brooks Restoration Project, said she started testing about two years ago after an appeal from the group Friends of the Upper Wye.
An analysis by the Observer this weekend of 256 freshwater habitats on 38 river systems which are sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) found just 23 (9%) are in “favourable” condition.
They warned that phosphate-rich runoff from intensive poultry farms in the supermarket supply chain was sullying the Wye’s waters and devastating the ecosystem with the spread of thick algae blooms.
Gordon Green, 70, an angler and retired industrial physicist from Thornbury, Gloucestershire, works as an adviser on the association’s sampling regime and also tested farmland, showing that higher levels of phosphorus in the soil were close to poultry units.
He transports chicken litter from his 40,000 laying hens out of the country and has reed beds to help filter any runoff into the Frome, a tributary of the Wye which runs across his farm.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) now acknowledges that poultry litter has caused pollution in the face of overwhelming evidence gathered by the citizen scientists, supported by university research.
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