Pollution incident on Cunsey beck, Windermere
On Wednesday 22nd June 2022 South Cumbria Rivers Trust (SCRT) were alerted by a member of the public to a pollution incident on Cunsey beck. It was reported that there had been a large number of fish deaths and visual accounts of grey and foul-smelling water. Environment Agency (EA) officers have attended the scene and started an investigation. The effects of such pollution can have a devastating event on a rivers ecology and may have profound impacts into the future;…