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SWIM at Shiplake Parish AGM 21/05/2026

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  I did a presentation on SWIM to Shiplake Parish AGM, and asked if the parish would consider contributing. The floor was then asked whether the Parish should provide funding, and they responded “yes”.  The Parish Council will now consider this at their next meeting.🙂 🥁 The results are in….. We got funding from the Shiplake Parish 😁

Shiplake Lock upstream - 20/05/2026 - 52

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Very low readings again this week 52 cfu/100ml, and last week it was 11 cfu/100ml. The water above Shiplake lock is upstream of Wargrave Sewage Treatment Works 

Basmore Lane, Shiplake - 23/04/2026 - 472

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Marsh lock - 21/April/2026 - 2159 cfu/100ml

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  Today’s reading jumped to 2159 (Poor) HoTWater’s Fluidion Alert 1 reading from the same sample was 1847 (Poor). 

Basmore Lane, Shiplake - 16/April/2026 - 416 cfu/100ml

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  For some reason the incubator reset its target temperature back to the default of 37.5. Noticed in time. 

Marsh lock - 14/April/2026 - 458 cfu/100ml

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  HoTWater’s Fluidion Alert 1 reading from the same sample was 223 (Excellent). 

Basmore Lane, Shiplake - 9/April/2026 - 133 cfu/100ml

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  It may have appeared that nothing has been happening for a while but I have been doing further tests in the background to iron out some procedural errors.  9/April/2026 we have a result of 133 cfu/100ml for Basmore Lane.