The Sustainable Communities Fund (SCF) has awarded more than £3,000 to Eco Rother Action for a project to monitor sewage spills on the river Rother between Midhurst and Petersfield.
The SCF is a dedicated community fund run and managed in partnership by the South Downs Trust and the South Downs National Park Authority. The following is just one of a range of initiatives that have been awarded grant funding across Sussex and Hampshire.
Local volunteers from Eco Rother Action, an independent climate change response group will monitor e-coli bacteria as part of the citizen science project and the data will be supplied to the Western Sussex Rivers Trust and the Environment Agency to help them target areas of the river where their efforts are most needed.
The SCF panel agreed that the initiative will support the work of other agencies to protect and maintain the river.
Find out more about the Sustainable Communities Fund here.