Windermere clean-up campaign group enlists UK Space Agency in data trawl

A campaign group seeking to curb the amount of phosphorus and other harmful nutrients emptying into England’s largest lake, Lake Windermere in Lake District has unveiled a new project which it and its partners describe as “the most innovative data collection project ever constructed to study the inputs into England's most iconic body of water, Windermere.”

The campaigner, Save Windermere, has joined forces with the UK Space Agency and an organisation formed to “break down the barriers of access to cutting edge environmental reporting tools,” Map Impact.

The project will, according to its members, “span the entire catchment, examining all the inputs of nutrient that are actively damaging our lake.”

In a prospectus it said it will investigate not only land use but, most importantly, the sewage actively being discharged into our lake, a factor not specifically studied in recent years.”