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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG

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Award-winning community group of volunteers from across Bromley Greenwich and Lewisham boroughs restoring, improving and protecting the River Quaggy and other local freshwaters.

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Salamander News @salamandernews.org · 29/08/2026
Independent local news faces huge financial challenges in its work holding local power to account Dorothy from Salamander on Today programme 45:20 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
UPDATE: Lewisham hospital’s drill for water – What we do and do not know www.qwag.org.uk/update-lewisham-hospitals-drill-for-water-what-we-do-and-do-not-know/
Photo shows a close up througn a metal fence of one of the two drilling sites in Ladywell Fields.

In the foreground there is a large yellow drum labelled ‘Spill Kit’ and in the background is a darker yellow a drilling rig with a drilling arm that extends high above the site.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
More of the demon dumper’s medical and other waste flytipped into the #RiverQuaggy at #LeeGreen where it flows from #Greenwich borough into #Lewisham. This had been going on for months + years. It’s not clear what the councils are doing. We have raised this with 5 local councillors. One replied.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not one but two kitchen sinks in a shopping trolley dumped in a park. Perhaps the person who’s done this does not know - or care - that to “throw everything but the kitchen sink” at a problem means to make an effort.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Drought is only over once rivers, reservoirs and groundwaters are completely replenished. This can take months of significant and sustained rainfall, while the impacts on our wildlife can last for years.” www.gov.uk/government/news/coordinated-drought-response-intensifies-amid-extreme-weather
Government announcement on drought and rivers includes the following text:

“Drought is only over once rivers, reservoirs and groundwaters are completely replenished. This can take months of significant and sustained rainfall, while the impacts on our wildlife can last for years.”

Press release:

www.gov.uk/government/news/coordinated-drought-response-intensifies-amid-extreme-weather
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Balls! Little water in River #Ravensbourne in #Bromley, but loads of tennis 🥎 & golf ⛳️ balls. So that’s alright… 2nd pic: dry river bed, Hayes Lane Nuffield Leisure Centre. 3rd & 4th pics: river not flowing through #NormanPark - just a few isolated pools. #drought #rivers
Tennis balls in the river Ravensbourne in Bromley. Low flow is shown by the low level of water against the measuring stick on the river wall.
Completely dried up river Ravensbourne at the Hayes Lane to the Nuffield Leisure Centre.In Norman Park, Bromley, the river Ravensbourne is dry for most of its stretch with just one or two isolated shallow pools with tiny fish.The dried up river in Norman Park, Bromley, with just this short stretch of water that is standing and shallow, not flowing.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The demon dumper is still at it (grainy pic from video we have) but Greenwich and Lewisham councils are still letting this happen. We asked them in April to liaise to stop dumping of personal medical waste etc in the #RiverQuaggy at #LeeGreen: qwag.org.uk/200-bags-of-...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Climate cover up? @salamandernews.org www.salamandernews.org/2026-08-as-e...
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As Europe burns, the UK's climate coverup continues
This article by CCNow is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.
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Salamander News @salamandernews.org · 27/07/2026
Could a clean energy project harm the Ravensbourne? Our rivers and water are already under "immense stress" @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social www.salamandernews.org/2026-07-rive...
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River protectors fear impacts as Lewisham hospital heat pump project awaits go-ahead
Test results due this week will determine whether the huge project is technically viable. But campaigners are raising concerns about the impact of the system on rivers and waters that are already und...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Pouring tomato sauce into a tree pit is the same kind of mentality as deliberately polluting our rivers. Grow up!
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Quality of England’s rivers & waters drops – again New data shows a drop in the ecological quality of England’s 4,658 rivers, lakes & surface water bodies: - just 14.3% have ‘Good Ecological Status’, down from 16% in 2019 - none pass for chemicals - the same as in 2019. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pollution Update: Monday 27 July 2026
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Salamander News reports on the #Ladywell Fields drilling www.salamandernews.org/2026-07-rive... @salamandernews.org
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
After two months of seeking answers here’s QWAG’s snapshot of what’s happening in #Ladywell Fields with the hospital’s drilling into the chalk aquifer. qwag.org.uk/drilling-for...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Any guesses? Where is this and what is happening?
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pollution Update - Mon 13 July pollution of the #RiverQuaggy at Osborne Terrace #LeeGreen where it flows from #Greenwich into #Lewisham. Pollution all the way down to Manor House Gardens & Manor Park then into central Lewisham, to meet the #Ravensbourne and then #Deptford Creek & the Thames.
Pollution of the River Green with very brown water as it flows at Osborne Terrace #LeeGreen where the river flows from #Greenwich borough into #Lewisham borough.

The pollution has drifted downstream to Manor House Gardens and Manor Park and will likely contaminate the entire river all the way into central Lewisham and into #Deptford Creek and the Thames.

This might be a new pollution incident or more or from the problem upstream at Mottingham Wood which happened over a week ago at the same time as the major pollution incidents of the River Pool.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Pollution update: 10 July 2026 update from the Environment Agency on Category1 pollution of the River Pool.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Blimey! Lots of Monzo bank cards in the #RiverQuaggy. These two are both in date and we tried to let #Monzo know, but making it easy to report something like this is clearly too trivial for a mega corporation to bother with.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Bouquets of Himalayan Balsam - removed about fifty Himalayan Balsam plants from the #RiverQuaggy between Manor Park and Staplehurst Road.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Pollution update: 3 July 2026 update from the Environment Agency on the fish and eel kills and other effects of the pollution the River Pool.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A fascinating visit to #Bromley reaches of the #Ravensbourne river catchment. But theres a lack of water on both sides of the town centre - the Civic Centre / Bishops Palace / St Blaise’s Well + the Glassmill Pond / Martin Hill. Too much water taken and leaks not being fixed?
Picture shows the dried up pond on the Martins Hill side of Bromley Town Centre down from the Churchill Theatre and library. Picture shows a community poster explaining concerns about the dried up pond.The St Blaise’s Well at the Bishop’s Palace is seeing get low flows of water from local groundwaters.

The well and pond are next to the now abandoned Bromley Civic Centre which have received planning approval for residential development by Galliard Homes. The public information sign at St Blaise’s Well.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Find out more about the #RiverQuaggy, our other local rivers + what’s needed to protect & restore them for all - at the Manor House Gardens Festival - Saturday 2O June. Pop by our stall for a chat, and to see if we can answer your questions or help in any other way. Get to know your local rivers.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Not sure why there’s so much secrecy around this #Lewisham hospital heat pump scheme in #Ladywell Fields, on the #River #Ravensbourne. If there’s nothing to hide… www.salamandernews.org/2026-06-hosp...
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Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust will drill test boreholes for its ground source heat pump project in the designated nature conservation site (SINC) next to Lewisham hospital.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
River will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' by farmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Herefordshire river will take decades to recover from 'vandalism'
An ecologist says it'll take a generation for the River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover from damage done by farmer John Price
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Charter signed giving the River Wye the right to be pollution free www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx21820rn4o
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River Wye becomes first UK river to gain charter rights
The Wye has become the first river in the UK to have a charter covering it from source to sea.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Have you seen it yet? New #RiverQuaggy sculpture in downtown #Lewisham. For more see the article on our website: www.qwag.org.uk Or qwag.org.uk/new-quaggy-s...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
200+ bags of medical waste removed by QWAG from the #RiverQuaggy But is the person doing the dumping back in town? www.qwag.org.uk/200-bags-of-medical-waste-removed-by-qwag/
Bags of medical and other waste lined up on road bridge over the Rivet Quaggy on the upper Lee High Road.

The bags used by the person doing the dumping were mostly orange Sainsbury and light blue Savers bags.

The bags were removed from the banks of the River Quaggy by QWAG volunteers so that they could be picked up by Lewisham Council waste crews.

Bags of medical and other waste lined up on road bridge over the Rivet Quaggy on the upper Lee High Road.

The bags used by the person doing the dumping were mostly orange Sainsbury and light blue Savers bags.

The photo shows the bags on the bridge and the bags still on the river bank being removed by QWAG volunteers so that they could be picked up by Lewisham Council waste crews.

The picture shows a mass of bags dumped along the river bank with the road bridge, which is painted light blue, over the River Quaggy in the foreground.

The bags used by the person doing the dumping were mostly orange Sainsbury and light blue bags from the chainstore Savers.

The bags were removed from the banks of the River Quaggy by QWAG volunteers so that they could be picked up by Lewisham Council waste crews.

The picture shows the final bags being removed from the banks of the River Quaggy which is almost clear with the full haul of 200 or more bags bow lined up on the bridge over the river waiting to be collected. By Lewisham Council’s waste crew.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Pollution saga - 1 house, 1 river, 4 years. Read the saga of trying to get local councillors, council officers, the Environment Agency, Thames Water + others to act to prevent deliberate pollution of our local rivers. There’s a short version and a long story for the full detail. See: qwag.org.uk
An officer of Lewisham Council visits the precise location the pollution of the River Quaggy  on a visit with QWAG in June 2025.

The officer takes their own photographs  to add to the pictures and video QWAG had already provided, including on its social media.

The images shows the Council officer in the River Quaggy, wearing waders provided by QWAG, taking photographs on their mobile ‘phone of pollution entering the river from the offending property, which backs on to the river.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you saw the kingfishers in Oxfordshire on the latest David Attenborough BBC wildlife series #SecretGarden, you can also see these halcyon wild species on our local rivers right here in South East London - on much of the #RiverQuaggy and the #RiverRavensbourne
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Pollution Update: Sunday 15 March Central Catford - chemicals being stored on the edge of the River Ravensbourne on the Waterlink Way near the Halfords / Wickes site at #Catford Bridge. The delta-shaped staining from the water outfall pipe is still going strong.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It’s 10 years since the #RiverQuaggy was polluted with 4,000 litres of diesel qwag.org.uk/oil-on-troub... “The Quaggy is a much loved but much abused urban river that’s been mistreated for decades…. you can see the rainbow colouring of diesel on the waters. And you can’t mistake the smell.”
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Pollution Update: Wed 4 Feb 2026 - 20/1/26: Lewisham stopped the pollution of the #RiverQuaggy by 1 property we first reported in mid ‘22. - Nov 26: we gave up and posted online. - 26/1/26: Council invite us to meet online, promise a formal apology & plan to repair relations, which we await.
Pollution Update: Wed 4 Feb 2026 - 

Lewisham Council has now stopped the pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from one property (on 20 Jan 2026).

- We first spotted the dodgy plumbing in June 2022, and spent the next 3+ years asking Lewisham Councillors, the Environment Agency, Thames Water, and the local MP to help stop the pollution ASAP.

- Reluctantly, and only when we’d given up on getting a swift / respectful response from anyone - we posted on social media.

- Within minutes, Lewisham Lead Councillor for our environment said they were “onto it”, except that meant trying to uncover why we had been ignored for so long despite asking them and others to act.- Into 2026, and Lewisham Council invited us to a 1 hour online meeting on Mon 26 Jan. 

At that meeting, the Council verbally apologised for its mishandling of things, and for the damaged relations with us this saga has caused.

The Council said it would send us:

 - a formal apology and explanation as part of a note of the 26 Jan meeting.- a plan for how the Council will fix its internal systems so that they work the next time we or anyone else wants to report a problem, or needs something seeing to.

- a plan for how it will repair relations.We also reminded the Council of the other pollution of the #RiverRavensbourne that has been pouring from the rear of premises on Catford Hill near Halford / Wickes near Catford Bridge, which we’ve asked to be dealt with for years.

We are now waiting to hear from Lewisham Council on all of these matters.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Pollution Update (23/1/26): - The pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from a property on Manor Park is now at an end. - Thanks to the staff who secured this - It’s taken since June 2022. - We’re meet senior Lewisham Council reps on Monday 26 January to hear how they will repair relations with us.
Pollution Update (23/1/26):

- The deliberate pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from a property on Manor Park is now at an end.

- Thank you to the staff at Lewisham Council who eventually secured this.

- It’s only taken since June 2022.

- We have a meeting with senior Council representatives on Monday 26 January to hear how they will repair relations with us.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Pollution Update: - The owner of the property on Manor Park that’s been polluting the Quaggy since at least 2022 is diverting the kitchen sink pipe that’s been pouring effluent into the river. - Work might be done by 16th. - Lewisham Building Control is doing what it should have done 4 years ago.
Pollution Update: 

- The owner of the property on Manor Park that’s been polluting the Quaggy since at least 2022 is diverting the kitchen sink pipe that’s been pouring effluent into the river.

- Work might be done by 16 January 2026.

- Lewisham Council’s Building Control department is doing in 2026 what it could / should have done 4 years ago.

Let’s see.

Lewisham Council still needs to:

- explain itself
- demonstrate to us and others that this saga will not happen again
- set out how it will mend its damaged relations with us.
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ladywellsociety.bsky.social @ladywellsociety.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
@quaggyriveraction.bsky.social are v concerned about authorities' inaction after reporting particular pollution incidents over year. The polluted river flows into Ladywell Fields where children play in the secondary channel unaware of what is being poured in upstream! Moorhen was eating something!
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#Lewisham Council claims to care about our local rivers. Why is it failing to: Prevent the #RiverQuaggy being polluted by just 1 property for 3+ years? Respond promptly to us + the dossier we sent? Being mute and inactive over 1 polluting property doesn’t bode well for pollution of our rivers
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
More pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from 82 Manor Park, near where the river flows into Manor Park - the park. This latest spill was while we were taking people on a wade as part of Manor Park Friends’ Autumn Fete, Sun 12 Oct. We first reported this in June 2022… HitherGreen #Lewisham #SE13
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Nappy fished out of the #RiverQuaggy
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
More pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from 82 Manor Park, near where the river flows into Manor Park - the park. This latest spill was while we were taking people on a wade as part of Manor Park Friends’ Autumn Fete, Sun 12 Oct. We first reported this in June 2022… HitherGreen #Lewisham #SE13
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Look what we saw at the end of our wade in Deptford Creek. An elver - a young eel - hopefully making its way upstream to the restored stretches of the #RiverQuaggy and Ravensbourne to live, grow, hang out, and breed. Eels we’re once common in our local rivers - and Elverson Rd DLR is so named.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
September in the rain. It’s 57 years since the Great Flood of 15th + 16th Sept 1968, when much of our area was under water. For more pics and info about the ‘68 deluge see the In Living Memory digital archive: sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemo...
Schoolchildren wading through the flood waters in central Lewisham. 

See more images from the 1968 Great Flood in the Lewisham Underwater - In Living Memory digital archive https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/

Courtesy of Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.Staying dry in Catford.

See more images from the 1968 Great Flood in the Lewisham Underwater - In Living Memory digital archive https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/

Courtesy of of Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.Mayor of Lewisham, Alderman Clifford Combes, in his dingy, delivers a meal to a home in Weirside Road, Ladywell aided by residents.

See more images from the 1968 Great Flood in the Lewisham Underwater - In Living Memory digital archive https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/

Courtesy of Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.Wading through the flood waters outside the Odeon cinema in central Lewisham. 

See more images from the 1968 Great Flood in the Lewisham Underwater - In Living Memory digital archive https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/

Courtesy of Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Is it a bird? Is it a…? Come to the unveiling of Street Waders, Anna Reading’s striking sculpture inspired by the Great Flood of 1968, beside the #RiverQuaggy 11am - 12.30pm, Sat 13 Sept @ Plough Bridge Gardens, central #Lewisham, #SE13 5AF, along from St Stephen's Church + Police Station.
Street Waders

Artist Anna Reading’s sculpture, Street Waders, responds to the memories of local people who experienced Lewisham’s Great Flood of 1968.

The sculpture acts as a weathervane, responding to changes in the weather and environment surrounding Lewisham’s #RiverQuaggy.

Incorporated into the design are silhouettes of a kingfisher and reed-like plant forms.

Central to its imagery is a risen water line evoked by a zigzag, above which is a hollow vessel, perforated with holes allowing rainwater to drip through.

Hanging beneath the water line are dangling, wading feet and cast impressions of smooth black rocks, representing Blackheath Pebbles, the 55-million-year-old rocks found on the bed of the Quaggy.

Photo credit: Ollie HammickPhoto credit: Ollie Hammick

Lewisham Underwater: Remembering the Great Flood of 1968

On 15-16 September 1968, following days of torrential rain, much of Lewisham found itself under water. What became known as the ‘Great Flood’ had a profound effect on Lewisham’s people and their relationship with its rivers.

A collaboration between the Quaggy Waterways Action Group (QWAG) and Lewisham Council’s Climate Resilience Team, Lewisham Underwater gathered memories of the Lewisham residents who were affected, connecting an event over 50 years ago with our relationship to local rivers today.

Through public art, fun-filled river activities and even a new flood beer called ‘Deluge’, Lewisham Underwater made rivers everybody’s business.

Explore images and more from the project in the digital archive: 

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/Photo credits: Ollie Hammick

Street Waders

Artist Anna Reading’s sculpture, Street Waders, responds to the memories of local people who experienced Lewisham’s Great Flood of 1968.

About the artist

Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne (1987), Anna Reading is a Lewisham resident and artist. 

She has a BA in Fine Art from Central St Martins (2010), an MfA in Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art (2017), and is the winner of the 2018-19 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award.

Reading’s work deals with issues around anthropocentric perspectives and the subsequent impacts upon environments, bodies, and human psyches. 

Her sculptural works attempt to engage and collaborate with the environment around us, looking for lessons in survival within hostile settings.

Reading creates hybrids of imagery, materials and forms to highlight the unruly spaces at the edges of the built environment.Great Flood of 1968

On 15-16 September 1968, following days of torrential rain, much of Lewisham found itself under water. What became known as the ‘Great Flood’ had a profound effect on Lewisham’s people and their relationship with its rivers.

A collaboration between the Quaggy Waterways Action Group (QWAG) and Lewisham Council’s Climate Resilience Team, Lewisham Underwater gathered memories of the Lewisham residents who were affected, connecting an event over 50 years ago with our relationship to local rivers today.

Through public art, fun-filled river activities and even a new flood beer called ‘Deluge’, Lewisham Underwater made rivers everybody’s business.

Explore images and more from the project in the digital archive: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/project-2/

Led by Goldsmiths, University of London, In Living Memory celebrated Lewisham’s diversity and heritage for London Borough of Culture 2022.
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Salamander News @salamandernews.org · 12/07/2025
Mike Keogh and @pauldezylva.bsky.social from @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social spent a year cleaning up disposable vapes across Lewisham. Why are they so bad for waterways? Is the new ban working? www.salamandernews.org/has-disposab...
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Disposable vapes - is the ban working?
Mike Keogh and Paul de Zylva from Quaggy Waterways Action Group (QWAG) spent a year cleaning up discarded vapes across Lewisham. Mike argues that the environmental damage caused by vapes is much wors...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Roll on 1st June - when the ban on #disposablevapes starts. Just some of the hundred of #vapes + packaging we’ve taken off the streets, and from road verges, parks, rivers. Will the ban work? Do trading standards have the resources to check retailers? More on the ban www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Roll on 1st June - when the ban on #disposablevapes starts.

Just some of the hundred of #vapes and packaging we’ve taken off the streets, and from road verges, parks, rivers.

Will the ban work? 

Do trading standards have the resources to check retailers?

For more on the ban see the BBC report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8d99qvm6nt
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The loss of front gardens to hard surfacing and ‘bland-scaping’ is adding to flood risk, health-harming heat, and nature’s decline. Front Gardens Network meeting with presentations and discussion: Thursday 15 May, 12.30pm to 1.30pm cpre-london.eventcube.io/events/73478...
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Front Garden Network
Please join us for the next online meeting of the Front Gardens Network on 15 May, 12.30-1.30pm.Alice Roberts, Head of Campaigns at CPRE London, will be giving an update on action being taken around L...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The BBC reports use of disposable vapes is dropping. Here’s our latest haul of vapes dropped on streets, in parks, on river banks and found in rivers. The drop continues… Disposable vape use falling in UK ahead of ban - BBC report www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Greenwich councillors are asking residents what they think of the Thames Path as part of a review for a scrutiny panel. The survey asks residents how the path could be improved and how it can be better connected with local communities.
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What do you think of Greenwich's Thames Path? Councillors want to know - The Greenwich Wire
Greenwich councillors are asking residents what they think of the Thames Path as part of a review that could lead to a new town hall strategy to improve it.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Lewisham Council says it WILL now deal with this pollution of the #RiverQuaggy from a home. We first reported this in summer 2022. Since then the EnvAgency Thames Water and #Lewisham have passed the buck. Our experience doesn’t bode well for residents/ others who may not know the system as we do.
Pollution from the rear of a house emptied in to the #RiverQuaggy just upstream of where the river flows though Manor Park #Lewisham #SE13

The stains on the concrete wall and the eroded river bank indicate pollution spills are frequent.

We (QWAG) have photos and film of the pollution coming out of the house into the river.A close up of ‘heart-shaped’ pool of milky pollution of the #RiverQuaggy.

The milky colour looks like detergents, which should not be going straight into the river.A council office takes their own photographic record of the pollution.
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interesting. But as London’s rivers are in trouble for pollution and physical alteration reasons, not just due to sewage spills, will this money also be used to renaturalise rivers and others projects not involving sewage? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Quaggy Waterways Action Group QWAG @quaggyriveraction.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Meanwhile, in a once civilised space - an Ex Twitter or similar…
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