Our neighbours in Harringay have a website similar to this one, called Harringay On Line. It's remit is much wider than a Residents' Association.
This snippet is of direct relevance to the Woodberry Down Estate and the pride we take in our completely unnatural waterways.
A contributor known as Straw Cat has written
Cycling to Hertford along the River Lea meadows the other day I was passing the very start of the New River where it takes most of its water from the Lea, and I found the old sluice house (on the right of the picture) at the head of the NR underneath which the water passes, surrounded by engineering works.
Asking a passer-by what was going on, he said he believed they were installing a filter to keep eels out of the NR ...
and he has contributed this image
I can't find corroboration for this particular piece of work but there is a lot of material out there about eels (anguilla anguilla) and the problems they are facing.
In 2016 the River Lea Catchment Partnership wrote:
Over the past three decades global stocks of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) have declined by 95% leading to their classification as a critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List.
And Google points us to these pieces about the Slimy Wrigglers project
Originally Posted by Adrian Essex on March 25, 2022 at 7:03am in Area Guide
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