• Summer Environmental Newsletter – covering a number of business wide updates here
• Water resources update for Thames Valley – areas impacted by the hosepipe ban here
• Water resources update for Non-Thames Valley – for areas not impacted by the hosepipe ban here

Hertfordshire County Council have published the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hertfordshire.  It looks at what we need to do to help nature recover, how we need to do it and where we need to do it.

 You can read the full report here

The water quality update for River Lea and tributaries for winter 2024/5 can be viewed here

The Upper Lea Catchment Spring Newletter can be read here

The slides from the River Lea Catchment Conference held Wednesday 12th March 2025 can be viewed  below. Read more ...

The winter 2025 newletter for the Upper Lea catchment can be viewed here

Information on the Old River Lea barbel introduction can  be read here.

Please note: If you catch a juvenile barbel, or any barbel with a blue dye mark, please take a picture of the belly and send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Public consultation for the River Basin Management Plan is underway.  To take part in the process follow this link

This is the first step in the process of reviewing and updating the river management plans, last updated in 2022.  A summary of the consultation responses will be published on the EA website within 12 weeks of the consultation closing. Read more ...

The 2023 progress update for the River Beane Chalkstream Strategy can be viewed here

The Thames Water Environmental Newsletter for Winter 2024 can  be read here.