We see a drop in our BGA results this fortnight.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our working day at the club.

All members welcome, plenty to do!

Summer series starts for the dinghys on Saturday 4th June. Anyone who wants to enter the weekly races please come along -all are welcome.

We have received the latest BGA results from the lab. The blue green Oscillatoria sp. cells are still the dominant algae within the sample, but we are also showing blue green algae genera.

All members welcome to come and join in

We have been made aware of people swimming in our lake the last two evenings again. This is not only highly dangerous but they are also leaving litter. As a member of the sailing club please do ask people to leave and that swimming is not allowed. If at any point you face intimidation or receive abuse, don't hesitate to call the police on 101. Please keep us informed if you have to do either of these things. Thanks a lot for your help.

We have received the latest BGA results. Unfortunately we are back to 300,000+ per ml. It could be that this is our base line.

New vacant volunteering post on the committee has become available. We are in need of an organised person to be our secretary.

A promising result from the latest samples taken from the lake.

All members welcome to join us each Wednesday from 5pm for windsurfing. Safety cover available.

We need volunteers to help with our annual weed cutting and removal programme from June onwards. Full training will be provided and no previous experience will be required.

As per the email sent out to all members on the 16th April, please don't forget our EGM on 9th May at 7pm. This is to discuss and vote on some rule changes relating to membership. It would be great to see as many there as possible

An invite to all of our members:

Latest BGA figures show an increase of cell count possibly due to the warmer weather of a week or so back.

We have noticed a potential issue with members who have a hotmail account not receiving emails.

No real change in the latest set of figures.

Saturday dinghy racing will start again on 5th March. All welcome -juniors and adults.

New BGA sample results taken on the 13th Feb 22. We seem to be pretty static at the moment, which it makes it even more important for us to keep trying to get more barley straw in the water. If anyone can help next weekend (26th Feb), you would be very welcome!

All welcome, please come and help out to get more barley straw in the water. 10am onwards, thank you

Exciting opportunity for our windsurfers who want to help us grow our junior members! All info in the advert, please get in contact with us to [email protected] for more info

The general committee want to thank everyone who took the time to complete the recent membership survey and thank you to our junior members who designed it. The results were really useful and important to us and today we met to identify 5 key themes which we will look to address. These key areas are:

We are now testing fortnightly after guidance from the Environment Agency. This will hopefully show a bigger difference on each report. Both samples still contain the blue green oscillatoria sp. but the counts had gone down again slightly.

Sailing trophies for 2022. See one of the dinghy sailors if you want to get involved in an event.

No real change in blue green Oscillatoria sp. this last week. Open water showed 418,250 cells/ml and the jetty sample showed 372,750 cells/ml. Both samples showed a low abundance of unicellular green algae and had a low to moderate abundance of diatoms, as per last week.