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Simon Collins

1 year

❤️River Mole news❤️our website now properly live please join us! The more members we have the louder our voice. Get latest news, invites to activities and AGM. Free to join but v grateful for donations to help with running costs. We are run by volunteers👍

River Mole River Watch, campaigning to end water pollution, river Mole United Kingdom

Campaigning to end pollution in the river Mole, and taking action to improve water quality for the benefit of the environment, wildlife and people.

www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

‼️Worst we’ve seen so far at #Horley today! turds float into public area, sewage fungus on footpaths, whole LAKES of sewage in fields contaminated with algal blooms and Cyanobacteria from raw sewage .. next to housing. Direct locals from walking straight into streams of sewage 🤢

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

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Here is the scandal of untreated sewage overtopping from storm tanks and flowing across paths to form pools of effluent in public open space used for recreation this happens every time the River Mole rises >2.5mASD at #Horley STW! EA this has impact and is a Cat 2 pollution!

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7 months

‼️Our tests show stream outside #Horley sewage works where raw sewage pours out across public footpath has 1,078,847 CFU Ecoli this poses serious risk to public health and pets: footpath should be immediately closed‼️upstream there is 0 ecoli! @thameswater @Feargal_Sharkey

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

My turds comment has made it onto #HIGNFY @haveigotnews amazing! 🤩 🤣👍🎉

Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

River Mole on BBC News today ..I got to say “turds” on TV

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Sewage treatment works still discharging untreated waste into River Mole for over 40 hours after modest 40mm of rain (+snowmelt) over 3 days overwhelmed storm tanks: this is not a storm! #riverpollution @thameswater #Reigate #Redhill #Dorking #Crawley

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

6 months

‼️Next explosive river scandal‼️our rivers are breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant bacteria: huge risk to future health. This video is 4 years old with 600 views.. it should have 60,000,000 views as far ahead of its time on this next huge water horror story 🤢🤮🤑🤧😷😵‍💫😵

watershed_investigations

@WATERSHED_i

6 months

Why does sewage in rivers matter? A clip from an article Leana put together at BBC London, where tests revealed antibiotic resistant bacteria in the Thames at Richmond & in the Serpentine. Full article 👉

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

9 months

‼️Storm tanks at #Horley STW overflowed during StormCiaran cascading raw sewage across road into public park and stream next to housing‼️health hazard and another scandalous pollution disaster @thameswater where’s clean up? Inches of shit remain near children’s play area.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

‼️RIVER MOLE #Surrey POLLUTION incident tonight on Upper Mole‼️widespread FISH death on realigned section downstream from Man’s Brook. Many fish seen dead and struggling for 1km stretch. Dissolved O2 9%! Efforts to oxygenate stream w/ pumps running overnight .. @Feargal_Sharkey

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

11 months

Our test results are in! Sadly the River Mole is in the worst condition of the whole summer. Read about our results here or in the thread below..

River Mole August Health Report!

Our August River Mole River Watch test result are in! Our fantastic citizen scientists were out collecting data across the entire catchment last weekend. Sadly the results show some of the worst...

www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk

Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

11 months

August River Mole River Watch test result are in! They are some of the worst results so far in our citizen science testing with the highest average phosphate level of 1.24ppm recorded for the whole catchment and more tributaries than ever scoring off-scale 2.5ppm. 1/9

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

River Mole on BBC News today ..I got to say “turds” on TV

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

6 months

ITV News last night on dangers from polluted flood water including sewage flooding at #Horley STW. Thanks to @RoundOurWayUK @leanahosea

'Disgusting filth': Bacteria with risk to human health in UK flood waters | ITV News

It comes after recent extreme weather had caused the rivers to flood into surrounding areas. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

Government is scrapping 2 key air quality regulations with no replacement and against expert advice so weakening environmental protection and making tracking or setting progress towards UK wide air pollution targets difficult.

UK ministers ‘misled public’ when scrapping air quality regulations

Exclusive: Documents show warnings that changes would weaken environmental protections were ignored

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

On location with ITV News talking #pollution on River Mole #Dorking catch it on ITV1 News 1:30pm 6:30pm and News at 10 #riverpollution ⁦ @BattamsAmie ⁩ ⁦

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Untreated sewage discharging for 57 hours so far into the River Mole: #Leatherhead , #Earlswood and #Dorking STWs started yesterday pm with rain + snow melt. L'head, Holmwood and Horley still discharging. At low flow the proportion of effluent is high so the river is polluted! ⚠️

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

10 months

The M25 crosses the River Mole three times and every tributary flows under a major road, most under the M23. Toxic runoff from roads is flushed into rivers with inadequate pollution controls causing a rush of heavy metals and hydrocarbons from tyre wear killing our rivers.

watershed_investigations

@WATERSHED_i

10 months

A toxic cocktail of heavy metals, hydrocarbons & chemicals is rushing off roads & into our rivers, lining riverbeds, poisoning water, killing fish - completely unmonitored & unregulated by the EA. Our article in @guardian 👇

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

River Mole has fallen to levels where the continuous flow of treated effluent from sewage works upstream appears on gauges: the ups and downs are not due to rainfall but daily "tides" of effluent peaking morning and evening reflecting the sanitary habits of population upstream.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

#Reigate #thunderstorm @LondonSnowWatch

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Fish struggling for oxygen some floating lifeless. Most likely cause is diffuse toxic wash-off from 20mm heavy rain yesterday into VERY low flows so limiting dilution of pollutants but also…

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

9 months

most sobering tweet on UK flooding I’ve seen. Deniers should be melting into oblivion, the idiot “it’s weather” crowd should be utterly ashamed and so should @RishiSunak for heinous ill informed back tracking on #netzero ..consigning young generation to face catastrophic impacts.

Sarah Bell

@Sarahbellagri

9 months

Absolutely immense amounts of water flowing at speed. through the farm and taking anything in its wake, including precious top soil, there is no amount of resilience I can build in to soils that will Compensate for rain like this, I could cry.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

@thameswater You know about this location after we raised the issue on behalf of local people.. who are understandably anxious and are reporting some sickness plus pet illness ;their messages to us are heartbreaking .. you have known about this it’s been going on for years!

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 years

Sunrise over #Reigate Priory this morning.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

For some scale... the fountains of lava erupting from the 4km fissure in Reykjanes #Iceland are height of the North Downs seen from #Reigate >100m with runny lava rapidly flowing and filling rapidly into valleys. (rough pic!)

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

Max temps are not the whole #heatwave story. Forecast wet bulb temps are EXTREMELY high at times Sun-Tues. WBT above 32 °C is very uncomfortable for humans. Theoretically, humans cannot survive when WBT exceeds 35 °C. Check gfs charts!

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

#UN live now : #Lavrov FFS stop lying! utter disinformation drivel and lies flow unhindered from his mouth like a river of shit. #Ukraine is NOT your country! RUSSIA is the aggressor RUSSIA invaded a sovereign nation and RUSSIA is responsible for the war!

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

11 months

@GMB River Mole has had more than 200 raw sewage spills over the last year... so far through 2023 alone there have been 400 spills with total duration over 4500 hours.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

"Let's be clear" @KevinClimate on @BBCr4today "net zero" allows wealthy parts of world to carry on emitting imposing impacts of climate change on poorest, most vulnerable people. Future generations will have to suck CO2 out of atms using unproven negative emissions tech.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

Today BBC1 9pm "It's now become perfectly clear...that the Earth is in trouble" David Attenborough with climate scientists including @MichaelEMann and @DrJamesHansen

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

@Biz_Ukraine_Mag @GlasnostGone This was during UK’s @JamesCleverly ’s response who said “Lavrov has left the chamber. No surprise he won’t want to hear the collective condemnation of #Russia !”

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

How our river group got on the news yesterday! Quick story about our moment on tv..

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

Sewage dumped into River Mole, #Surrey river for over 4,700 hours in 2024 so far

Sewage dumped into Surrey river for over 4,700 hours in 2024 so far

The River Mole catchment could be on track to record an exceptionally high volume of sewage spills this year, data suggest

inews.co.uk

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

Good piece on ITV via Press Association

Sewage spills on to public path as treatment works overwhelmed by flood water | ITV News

Thames Water said it has installed a temporary pump to clear the flood and is working to upgrade the facility. | ITV News Meridian

www.itv.com

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

8 months

Fabulous 22° halo round the moon tonight #Reigate

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

Some streams nr #Reigate looking polluted with turbid red discolouration but it’s natural: groundwater is rising from mineral rich Greensand on Heath which discolours water as oxidises. May also leave what looks like oil on surface but this is natural salts. Good news this time!

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

I never imagined I’d actually be happy to do this 😁.. but here we are and it seems we are forced to try anything to make a corner of the world a better place for our children.

Victoria Chester

@vlcgreenparty

7 months

Day out at the sewage farm.. doing some testing to see if the water is as gross as it looks.. 😨 @SirGeogy @cllrLisaScott @stevewotton @SE_Rivers_Trust @RedhillGreens @Feargal_Sharkey

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

At 7293 hours River Mole sewage overflows for the first 3 months of 2024 now exceed the whole of 2022! More bad news for @thameswater

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

9 months

Flooding in River Mole catchment at #Horley after a *2 YEAR* return period rain event! Now let’s think about the impact of the 100 year storm or worse WHEN it happens! Climate change adaptation and slowing the flow needed urgently! Mill Lane #Horley closed with stuck cars.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

⚠️Dangerous PFAS in the River Mole⚠️ No safe levels. Treatment works are not required to remove #PFAS Watch @TheENDSReport and @WATERSHED_i investigation which uncovers shocking toxic threat to human health from PFAS "forever chemicals"

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

An oak sadly fell in #Reigate Priory Park last week. We counted rings, measured girth and height and found that in 150 years it sequestered 10 tonnes of CO2 which is now being slowly released into air and soil. It lived through a 1C temp rise..1/3 #climatestripes © @ed_hawkins

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

Our fabulous River Mole River Watch volunteers were out testing the health of the river this weekend... it's coming up on a year since we started our regular testing across the whole catchment. Sincere thank you to all of our wonderful citizen scientists! ♥️

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

Can the humble #bicycle save the planet? Yes! UN Emissions Gap Report 2019 mentions #cycling in one of the big 5 major sectoral transformations essential to achieve net zero GHG emissions globally. (p.55) @modacitylife @CycleRandR @Chris_Boardman

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

Radio 4: @KevinClimate "Nowhere near Paris commitments. Emissions rising. All continuing to fail. Imaginative accounting wrt to imported emissions, aviation, shipping. We are on 3-4C trajectory unless we rapidly bring down emissions" @BBCr4today

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

#Reigate thunderstorm last night..

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

A good moment to launch my blog on the River Mole! First post is a movie following the route downstream, so we know where it goes, our lovely local river with a challenging journey! blog: I'll post updates here #Reigate #Surrey

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

3 years

Snowy Priory Park #Reigate

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

It’s an upsetting thing to see fish struggling and dying. Our group River Mole River Watch is working to make a difference. If you can help us please get in touch. It’s a bad night for the Upper Mole but let’s hope we can work to improve our lovely river back to health. End.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

11 months

@DeborahMeaden Absolutely👍… important to raise flood resilience from paltry 100 year flood and rainfall event to 1000 year 0.1% annual probability .. steer new developments above Flood Zone 2 and build SuDS to accommodate 1000 year events. Resilience necessary to keep people safe.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

@IAPonomarenko The “mayhem and horror” have started :

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@kat0487

2 years

The military and the cops walk the streets, in the malls, in the subway , everywhere, stop men and hand them writs to war. My riend is crying in hysterics, because her husband is being taken away to war, and they have 2 small children. There is horror and panic everywhere.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Sadly this restoration is for a short 600m stretch only, sandwiched between rail, main road and suburbs.. all too soon it returns to an engineered course with toxic road runoff delivered intravenously through ditches and culverts. 3/4

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

6 months

Inspiring talk by @paulpowlesland on Rights of Rivers and river guardianship ..superb ideas to take forward for River Mole River Watch... Especially like walk river and map it.. something we were planning for our fantastic volunteers in tributary/ outfall surveys @Resurgence_mag

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

River Mole River Watch joined up with West Vale Park RA to get something done about the woeful situation at #Horley STW. We pressured ⁦ @thameswater ⁩ inc media and political support to mitigate regular sewage flooding but there’s much more to do.

‘I’ve seen solid waste float by’: Surrey riverside residents try to Stop the Poo

The sewage treatment works at Horley seem to be crumbling, much like owner Thames Water itself

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

the Airmass arriving here on Friday has had an extraordinary 5000km journey over the Sahara Desert, starting from Libya a week ago, then into S Algeria and Mali; today it's leaving Africa but is carrying desert dust, visible today off Casablanca, forecast to reach UK by Thursday.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

Don’t want to boast or anything but our weather club at @ReigateGrammar school explored space for a bargain £200 🤣👏🚀🪐

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@elonmusk

5 months

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

Incredible walk to remotest part of River Mole headwaters deep in Worth Forest. Discovered wild ancient prehistory, archaeology and wildlife paradise. All of it just clinging on despite endless threats. My guide was expert naturalist Dave Bangs author of Field Guide to the Weald.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

9 months

Walk through Denbies today in Mole Gap.. great light.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

@BBCr4today @GretaThunberg Svante Thunberg spoke so well about his daughter @GretaThunberg . Further widens the yawning gap between the inspiring stories of the real people involved in #ClimateChange activism and the ridiculous nonsense peddled by trolls, deniers and conspiracy theorists.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

Another day yesterday assessing tornado damage on track thru farmland where trees had been characteristically shredded, twisted and debris lofted a distance. Very helpful farmers permitted access and interested in #Reigate #Horley tornado! Report underway @TorroUK @Sarah_Hants

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023 .. Nigel and I in this BBC report #RiverMoleRiverWatch

Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023

Environment Agency data shows sewage spilled into England's waterways for over 3.6 million hours last year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

Happy New Year friends on Twitter X .. here’s the setting sun from Priory Park #Reigate yesterday. Wishing you a wonderful 2024 🎉🎆

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

#Reigate around Priory Park this morning... beautiful as oak still have leaves casting an amazing colour in the snow.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

Beautiful light in #Reigate Priory Park this morning. Very lucky we have this open space.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

The plight of the River Mole #Surrey gaining well timed and much needed exposure as March the Mole walks kick off today and continue upstream next two Sundays in March. Join action to clean up our local river!

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

1 year

Amie rather brilliantly exposing the reality of trying to report a pollution incident to the @EnvAgency . Part 1.

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@SirGeogy

2 years

Autumnal afternoon shadows in the Park #Reigate Priory

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

10 months

Depending on spatial extent, 100mm in a day in the SE would be 150-200 year storm (return period).

James Peacock

@peacockreports

10 months

⚠️There's growing model support for a deluge across SE England Fri-Sat. Most of what you see on these maps falls during that time. High chance of a wide swathe seeing at least 25 mm rainfall, locally up to 60 mm in far S/E. Small chance of up to 100 mm in worst affected areas.

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@SirGeogy

5 years

Top climate scientist @KevinClimate calls ebikes a "game-changer" with respect to low carbon future transport technology at community scale. Now we need improvements in cycle infrastructure to set wheels in motion. @modacitylife @CycleRandR #ClimateChange #zerocarbon

Kevin Anderson

@KevinClimate

5 years

Solar &, in my view, E-bikes, are two technologies that can rightly be described as likely game-changers. They both offer opportunities for reshaping important facets of contemporary society in a way that EVs & large offshore turbines cannot (tho these still have a role to play).

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Great news! Surfacing #Reigate Priory Park circuit path (west end) hopefully starts this Autumn courtesy @SurreyCouncil . This will hopefully sort the seasonal morass, reduce off-piste trampling and improve access and enjoyment of this beautiful walk @ReigateUK @yourtownreigate

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@SirGeogy

9 months

#Reigate Priory Park circuit path finished👍 thanks to @SurreyCouncil for great improvement over morass before, reduces trampling into woods, improves health and well being for more people to enjoy. finished path seems robust except at wet spot lower down but time will tell👍

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

Crazily gorgeous sun setting over #Surrey View looking out from #Reigate Edes Fields across the Mole Valley (of course!) to Leith Hill. Uplifting beauty on the doorstep.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

7 months

As usual if SAFE to do so please share photos of flooded areas in the River Mole catchment today .. I’d be very grateful for location and time if possible any description too. Huge thanks.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

3 years

Net-zero with a big NET: "“adaptation,” “resilience,” “geoengineering” and “carbon capture”: These words offer the soothing promise of action, but all fail to address the scale of the problem" quote Prof Michael Mann @MichaelEMann @KevinClimate

Lindsey Higgins, PhD (she/her)

@thelindscape

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"...the promise of carbon capture and net zero emissions decades from now allows politicians to kick the can so far down the road you can barely see it." - @MichaelEMann At #COP26 , we need more than empty promises and delay tactics.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

TODAY AGAIN fish die-offs in River Mole this time West Vale #Horley . Downstream of STW EDM discharging after Tstorm am. Fewer counted this time but that’s twice in a week fish are seen floating lifeless in our river and this is just visible damage at top of food web😩

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@SirGeogy

1 year

Delighted that our River Mole River Watch group has been awarded a grant by Surrey Climate Commission who are helping groups across the county accelerate their excellent work for the environment. Thank you! #SurreySustainabilityGrants

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@SirGeogy

7 months

So sad and shocking for residents of #Grindavik ❤️.. very happy family memories of world famous lobster soup at Cafe Bryggjan .. dearly hope the town survives and thrives in true resilient Icelandic style #Iceland #IcelandVolcano

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@SirGeogy

4 months

‼️Look! we are now all witnesses to the catastrophic end-game of our wasted water industry..forced to record the stinking death throes of shamefully neglected infrastructure unfit for purpose unable to even protect people and wildlife from dangerous toxic waste. @Feargal_Sharkey

Sarah

@Sarah_Hants

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Can't tell you how disgusting the stink from the Thames Water sewage treatment into the brook was. 🤢

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@SirGeogy

3 years

A week later... #Reigate

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@SirGeogy

6 months

January pollution results are in for River Mole. Thanks to our fantastic citizen scientists (pics of a few here!) who rigorously test whole catchment from source to Thames: monitoring pollution to hold polluters to account to improve river health for all.

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@SirGeogy

2 years

Lots of flashes in cells building to east.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 years

Good mooc if you're interested in science of #climatechange extra-special as taught by THE @MichaelEMann . Imagine that, top climate scientist puts hours of teaching together just for you, for free! I found sections on climate models esp useful @edXOnline

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@SirGeogy

6 months

River Mole flowing across road west of Flanchford Bridge; cars driving through. Bridge itself is clear at though river brim up to bridge level. Level likely to stay high thru morning.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

4 months

How does River Mole respond to rain? Tributaries rise and fall quickly. 10 streams deliver peak flows to the main channel at different times merging into one peak downstream. Rain total over hours is important to Upper Mole, total over 2 days is critical to flooding in Lower Mole

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@SirGeogy

4 years

An extraordinary, emotional "last day", though we of course continue with children of key workers next week and provide learning online for our fantastic @ReigateGrammar pupils. Great speech from @rgsheadmaster "Our doors are closed, but our hearts are open".

Shaun Fenton OBE

@rgsheadmaster

4 years

I am sad for our pupils. In bad times we see the best of human nature. These are terrible times & yet the outpouring of compassion and commitment & care is overwhelming - it is an honour to be a Reigatian today. Parent, pupil, staff, friend, alum, Governor-community #BeValiant

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@campbellclaret 👍This stat👏if Londoners swapped car trips that could reasonably be walked or cycled, 60% would meet recommended 150mins of physical activity per week. Population would gain over 60,000yrs of healthy life every year delivering an economic health benefit of >£2 billion annually.

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@SirGeogy

1 year

@alexdeakin Awesome, well said @alexdeakin but sad this even needs to be spelt out.

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@SirGeogy

11 months

@WxNB_ Terrible. This area of #Greece is so beautiful, great memories of visiting; I hope people there stay safe.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

Fabulous halo round the sun earlier #Reigate with a mock sun. Faint rainbow formed by ice crystals in cirrostratus. Often herald bad weather but I think this is indicating bad weather in Channel later, prob not us.

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@SirGeogy

9 months

Let's recall StJude Storm 28-29 Oct 2013: it had a wind field potentially similar to forecast #StormCiaran , an anomalously warm Atlantic, a very powerful jetstream...BUT #StormCiaran has forecast central pressure of 954mb compared to 976mb... and remember the impacts of StJude?

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@SirGeogy

2 years

Snow still hanging on trees here .. colder north facing valleys have noticeably more snow and frost. Winter wonderland here in Priory Park #Reigate

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4 years

Priory Park #Reigate

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@SirGeogy

8 months

River Mole bankfull at Flanchford Bridge this misty morning running at about 1mASD and falling.

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@SirGeogy

2 years

Mapped 15 significant trees with damage or blown down from Eunice in #Reigate Priory Park: shown in red on map. Photos of notable trees inc big oak snapped at west end of ridge, plus hornbeam and oak nr pond. Brings total to 100 big trees down since 2019. Wooded area 0.41 km².

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

3 years

@MattHugo81 View of this cell 20 miles away east of #Reigate

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

Nice UFO Lenticular clouds riding a modest jet stream over tatty remains of fair weather cumulus on North Downs from #Reigate this pm.

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@SirGeogy

3 years

Latest Google Earth web imagery shows eerily quiet Gatwick airport at the height of UK Lockdown 2020, with parked planes and empty car parks.

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

5 months

M25 closure chaos shows exactly why building another lane on our stuffed #Surrey motorway section must “never happen” : excellent thread. #Reigate

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

9 months

Calm isn’t it! Centre “eye” of #StormCiar án now directly over Mole catchment #Surrey record low pressure 953mb .. winds spiralling round cyclone. Awesome atmospheric action!

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

1 year

DEFRA @EnvAgency good to see 2022 catchment data out now but Chemical status removed with no priority hazardous substances assessed. Public deserve to know chemical PFAS (fail) status! Why removed? @Feargal_Sharkey

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@SirGeogy

7 months

@Gary96631468611 @DianaBlackburne @Feargal_Sharkey spoken to local ex workers (era 70’s-80’s) v interesting finding out how STWs operated in past egSewage sludge from Dorking works was spread on lower slopes of Box Hill 😬more workers on site inc process chemist👍..now some have solo worker or none perm at all.☹️

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Simon Collins

@SirGeogy

2 years

Plough lines. Past sunny days have been stunning #Reigate

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@SirGeogy

2 years

@mariamposts Spot on...London welcomed tens of billions ££ of Russian controlled assets. Over 20yrs Russia has cultivated corrupt elements of UK politics and been allowed to wangle deep into economies, shaping and destabilise democracies. Pay back time for opening doors to Russian subversion.

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