The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Have cobbled together an old non published blog with what we're doing now on North Scrape. We've had loads of enquires about is so please have a read if you're interested and pass on to any others who may also want to know more. Have a read here and feel free to ask any questions if I've missed anything out or need to explain anything further.

T

Hi Toby, When I visited Frampton last week there was an horrendous smell of methane from one of the ditches with many dead fish in it, is this one of the consequences of the plan?
Geoff

Hi Geoff,

In a word No.

In more words - we had a fish die off (rudd and sticklebacks) in the ditch between the reedbed/scrapes. It appears to have been due to a blue-green algae bloom causing anaerobic (and therefore smelly) conditions. EA came to assess/investiagate and found the oxygen percentage was down to 3% (it should be more like 70%). They said they had been responding to unprecedented levels of fish kills during the past few weeks due to the environmental conditions. Unfortunately there wasn't really anything we could have done about it. We will investigate barley straw for next year as this can help to reduce the potential for large blue-green algal blooms to occur, but this needs to be done well in advance and not when there is a problem. The ditch should return to normal in a few weeks.

Cheers,

John

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Hi John,
Thanks for the information, I'd certainly not experienced anything like it before on my previous visits to Frampton.
Geoff