Sheeps Green Fish Pass & water course restoration

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Cambridge City Council is proposing to enhance ‘The Rush’, the meandering watercourse that flows through Sheep’s Green & Coe Fen Local Nature Reserve (LNR) from the canoe club to the Newnham Mill pond. The project is championed by the Cam Valley Forum and seeks to increase year round flow to reduce silt in the watercourse, expose gravels for spawning fish and allow fish passage past the two mill ponds upstream to Byron’s Pool LNR fish pass and beyond. The existing sluice is failing and will be replaced with an automated structure that will permit fish passage and allow control of the flow through the watercourse. The change in level between the upper river and the Mill pool will be gradually lost over two natural ramps with resting pools that will allow fish to navigate upstream. Funding will be from allocated (S106) developer contributions for informal public open space and a grant from the Environment Agency who are partners in the design and implementation of the scheme. Keywords: river, biodiversity, conservation