{"id":238,"date":"2019-12-08T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2019-12-09T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:42:47","slug":"river-glyde-visit-castlebellingham-7-dec-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/river-glyde-visit-castlebellingham-7-dec-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"River Glyde Visit Castlebellingham 7 Dec 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday 7th December 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water Resources Management Training in Co. Louth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great turn out on the River Glyde (Castlebellingham) yesterday for our small streams assessment demonstration!  The group of some 38 committed individuals included seven super enthusiastic and very knowledgeable budding young freshwater biologists. What a great morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1568x882.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The group examining the trays containing the macroinvertebrate sampled from the River Glyde in Castlebellingham.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1568x882.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ken points out some interesting creatures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026-1568x882.jpeg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00026.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Taking a kick sample.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-1568x882.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Martin cleaning a demonstration sample just taken from the River Glyde.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"842\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010-1024x842.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010-1024x842.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010-300x247.jpg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010-768x632.jpg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010-1568x1290.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20191207_103010.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ken outlines how the system works &#8211; mayflies (3-tails), stoneflies (2-tails), Caddis flies (cased and uncased) on the sensitive side and then snails, worms, true flies, leeches and flatworms on the tolerant-to-pollution side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image00012-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Scoring up a sample &#8211; showing how to identify the various groups of sensitive species against the tolerant species and calculating the balance between them to come up with a final score that tells a lot about the condition of the river or stream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GivingItATry_IMG_2750_Trim.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>A successful kick sample!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anodontaglyde.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anodontaglyde.jpg 720w, http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anodontaglyde-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>An empty shell of the freshwater swan mussel, <em>Anodonta <\/em>&#8211; probably washed down from the slower flowing reaches upstream of Castlebellingham.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our treasure trove of invertebrates included:  a large variety of mayflies, cased and uncased caddis, <em>Simulium <\/em>(blackfly), water slaters, shrimp and shells of the highly conserved swan mussel, <em>Anodonta cygnea<\/em>. Hopefully this indicates a solid population of these increasing rare and long lived creatures further upstream.  Many of yesterdays\u2019 participants are involved in actively planning exciting new freshwater awareness programmes in County Louth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-primary-background-color\">Don\u2019t forget next week&#8217;s important meeting of the Dundalk Bay Rivers Association in the Creative Spark Complex , Dundalk, on Sunday 15th December 2019 &#8211; from 10am-1pm &#8211; #dundalkbayriversassociation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-secondary-background-color\">(also they have more photos from this event  on the River Glyde at Castlebellingham )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 7th December 2019 Water Resources Management Training in Co. Louth What a great turn out on the River Glyde (Castlebellingham) yesterday for our small streams assessment demonstration! The group of some 38 committed individuals included seven super enthusiastic and very knowledgeable budding young freshwater biologists. What a great morning. Our treasure trove of invertebrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}