Journal
AREA
Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 443-453Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01107.x
Keywords
River Eden; diffuse pollution; hydrological monitoring; water quality
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- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
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The water quality of our rivers and lakes is a reflection of the landscape over and through which it travels. The UK government, along with all European Union member states, are obliged under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to aim for good ecological status of fresh water bodies by 2015. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of potential mitigation measures in reducing diffuse water pollution from agriculture at the catchment scale, the Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) project was developed. The project is jointly funded by Defra, the Environment Agency (EA) and the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). There are three DTCs across the country: the Eden catchment, Cumbria; the Wensum catchment, Norfolk and the Hampshire Avon catchment. The Eden DTC has established three similar to 10 km2 focus catchments, chosen to reflect different farming practices, geologies, elevations and hydrological characteristics. Within each focus catchment, two sub-catchments have been selected, one control and one mitigated, in which numerous existing and novel mitigation measures will be tested. It is hoped that the mitigation features will be multi-purpose, having positive effects on pollutant retention, flooding, carbon sequestration, habitat creation and biodiversity. The effectiveness of these measures is assessed through networks of hydro-meteorological and water-quality instrumentation, most of which will provide data in near real time, with sub-hourly time steps.
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