DRiPS – 40 years on
Set up in 1985 by local people who were worried about the future of the River Darent, the Darent River Preservation Society (DRiPS) is still going strong 40 years later. Our Chairman, Stuart Merrylees, created a presentation telling the story of the river and of the...
Weir removal: The need for a broader, risk-based analysis
The motivation for this blog comes from the DRiPS committee’s anxiety about the removal of weirs on the Darent, particularly one of the biggest and most beautiful at Old Mill Close, Eynsford. Many weirs, together with their sluices and clay bunds, form millheads which...
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