Windermere's environmental quality under spotlight (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Windermere's environmental quality under spotlight

9:50am Friday 14th November 2008 in

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EIGHTY delegates from the region’s leading conservation bodies are gathering in the Lake District today (Friday) to look at ways of improving the environmental quality of Windermere and its catchment area.

They will examine a new programme aimed at enhancing the sustainability of the lake and its surroundings and form workshops to examine a range of issues affecting lakeshores, river corridors, farming and forestry, recreational lake use and invasive lake and river species.

The meeting, to be chaired by the Lake District National Park Authority chief executive Richard Leafe, has been called by the Lake District Still Waters Partnership.

The Windermere Project is the second of its type in the national park, following on from a similar approach being taken for Bassenthwaite Lake.

Organisations being represented at the meeting, which is taking place in the National Park Visitor Centre at Brockhole, include the National Trust, Forestry Commission, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Environment Agency, the Freshwater Biological Association, Natural England, Bassenthwaite Reflections and United Utilities.