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Essex Rivers Hub

Working in partnership to look after our rivers and estuaries
Essex Rivers Hub

About Us

The Essex Rivers Hub (ERH) was formed in January 2014 to bring together a variety of organisations, local community groups, and interested people to work together to help improve the rivers and estuaries of the Combined Essex management catchment – from the Crouch & Roach to the Stour. Water is essential to our life and livelihoods and working together we can improve quality of our water environments for people and wildlife.

Essex Historic Coastal Data Available on the NBN Gateway | Essex Rivers Hub

How We Work

We want to work at bigger catchment scales over longer timeframes. By doing this we will have a greater chance of restoring our rivers and nature and helping our climate.

A catchment is an area of land where water collects when it rains, bounded by hills or higher ground. As the water flows over the landscape, it finds its way into streams and down into the soil, eventually feeding the river. Some of this water stays underground and continues to slowly feed the river in times of low rainfall. Every inch of land on the earth forms part of a catchment.

Understanding Our Rivers

Each catchment is different. To build the action plans to help improve our rivers, we need to have a good understanding of their characteristics, knowledge of the wildlife that lives in them, and insight into the ways people utilise rivers for recreation and sport such as walking and fishing.

The Essex Rivers Hub Catchment

We look after five river catchments which are grouped together into the Combined Essex management catchment. This covers an area of 3,413 km2 (1,318 square miles) across the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and a small part of Cambridgeshire. Use the map below to find your local river and learn more about its place in the catchment.

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