Dataset

Godalming Hub

Dataset by River Wey Trust

Dataset summary

Observations

  • 28 March 2025

    Outflow from GSTW into Wey Natural River: Trunley Heath Road by Trevor Murrells

    There was water coming from the outflow pipe with some foam produced downstream. This location has becoming very muddy due to water running across Trunley Heath Road, from Unstead Wetland Reserve, we suspect from the pool by the manhole cover about 20 metres away.

  • 28 March 2025

    Outlet into Pond Wood by Trevor Murrells

    There is a small stagnant pool detached from the main pond. The depth is very shallow and the bed of the pool consists mainly of leaf litter. No water is coming from the two pipes. For these reasons this location was not chemically tested.

  • 28 March 2025

    Small pool on UWNR near to GSTW outflow, east side of Trunley Health Road by Trevor Murrells

    The algae has appeared since the pool was last tested a month ago. This pool did not exist until relatively recently, normally you would not expect to find water at this location on the wetland reserve hence the decision to test. The depth of the pool was the same as last month and has been categorized as average.

  • 28 March 2025

    Natural Wey River at Unstead close to bridge (Northside) by Trevor Murrells

  • 28 March 2025

    Polsted Lane/Withies Lane stream by Trevor Murrells

  • 28 March 2025

    Peperharrow swimming spot, by fish bypass by Rachel Hargreaves

    Oily film on fish pass platform ( but no sign in water) No sign of foaming pollution, no dead fish 4 people swam, no adverse effects

  • 24 February 2025

    Landings Wood Stream by David M Jones

    We have LOTS of new information. 1. See attached annotated map of Godalming, Catteshall Tithe Map 1844. 2. When the small housing estate of 1985 was built on the island created by the R. Wey / 'Mill Stream' and Navigation [cut in the mid-18th Cent.], we assumed that the source of Landings Wood Stream, meandering basically N–S through the woodland [Tithe Map area numbers 6, 15, 16 and 17], was off the R. Wey / 'Mill Stream' to the East. We thought it flowed from the R. Wey at C [on map] and had been channeled beneath the road on the estate [the 1985 estate road crosses N–S over C to C on the map], emerging behind a set of garages to run North (i.e. towards our testing site at A). 3. See new photos of the stream, showing how much more shallow it has been for the latest two testings! 4. We investigated what we thought was a blockage or other obstruction at C [west end]; even entering the stream and probing into the channeling pipe. 5. This did not unblock anything and the stream has been shallow, with a reduced flow, for the past eight weeks. 6. So we investigated and found the Tithe Map of 1844, which shows that in fact the source and underground pipe channelling of the stream originates at D. 7. Apparently, the stream flowed openly until, the housing estate was built, when the section of the stream between C and D was buried and piped, to level the ground for the houses and garages over it at Tithe plot number 17. 8. The west end of this pipe is therefore at the Navigation, and apparently quite deep. 9. We have had a LOT of rain this winter and recently note that many banks and areas of the R. Wey / 'Mill Stream' have had sand bank deposits that make sections shallow enough in the river itself for a person to stand in it. [We even noticed a heron standing in the middle of the 'Modern Mill Cut' [see map!] 10. It seems there has been a significant build-up of sand btw in the river and in the Navigation and has partially blocked the inflow into Landings Wood Stream at D. 10. So, because the shallowness of only a 4–5 inches / 100–125mm at our original testing site at A makes testing difficult, we took this latest test from a new site. 11. The NEW Testing site is a B on the map, where Landings Wood Stream emerges from the woodland to join the Mill Cut, as shown on our annotated map. WE feel confident that the readings from Site B will be similar to those that we have been taking at site A.

  • 21 February 2025

    Outflow from GSTW into Wey Natural River: Trunley Heath Road by Trevor Murrells

    Outflow pipe submerged.

  • 21 February 2025

    Outlet into Pond Wood by Trevor Murrells

    Slight trickle from pipes. Duckweed on immediate pool (partial covering) but not on the main pond. Pond higher than normal.

  • 21 February 2025

    Small pool on UWNR near to GSTW outflow, east side of Trunley Health Road by Trevor Murrells

    Washing machine odour coming from beneath manhole cover.

  • 21 February 2025

    Natural Wey River at Unstead close to bridge (Northside) by Trevor Murrells

  • 21 February 2025

    Peperharrow swimming spot, by fish bypass by Rachel Hargreaves

    High water, beginning to flood. Noticeable sand deposits from recent flooding

  • 27 January 2025

    Peperharrow swimming spot, by fish bypass by Rachel Hargreaves

  • 25 January 2025

    Farncombe boat house by Nicola 2

    Some natural debris going upstream from recent storm