Professor Ian Trayer kindly visited Cofton today to take samples of the water.  When he first arrived he phoned to say that as far as he was concerned BGA was not visible with the naked eye as it is at Lower Bittell.  After testing he confirmed that there is a trace of BGA in Cofton but the strain we have got is not ‘nasty’ and the infestation is very light –  not harmful to dogs or swimmers!  He is an expert on the subject and recons that once end of Sep/Oct is here and the weather gets colder it will disappear and should not be a permanent problem.  He is in charge of checking the purity of the water at Bittell and he kindly offered to re check Cofton at the same time.  As a member of the White Swan Piscatorials and a keen fisherman he has a vested interest in Cofton!

We are now awaiting a reply to our letter to BW regarding the valve.

British Waterways have issued a report that Cofton Reservoir is contaminated with Blue/Green Algea.  Although we know that Lower Bittell has BGA it has not yet been established that Cofton has.  The people who have so far looked at it think it very unlikely.  However, we are having it tested later in the week and our web site will be posted with the outcome.