Rivers Ecology Monitoring Results

National surveys of Irish rivers have taken place on a continuous basis since 1971, when 2,900 km of river channel was surveyed. The National Rivers Monitoring Programme was replaced by the Water Framework Monitoring Programme from 22 December 2006. As part of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) Monitoring Programme approximately one third of our major rivers and their more important tributaries are surveyed and assessed each year by EPA ecologists. A complete survey cycle is completed every three years. The sites are scored on a five point system developed by the EPA called the Biological Q rating system.

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Shared (this field will be removed in the future) Open
IB1 Sensitivity Class
IB1 Trust Framework
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Conforms to ["The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment."]
Contact email [email protected]
Contact name Environmental Protection Agency
End of temporal extent 2007-06-11T00:00:00
Frequency Annual
GUID https://data.gov.ie/dataset/0a14bb98-42f4-43a1-9798-2ae399efece7
Identifier 0a14bb98-42f4-43a1-9798-2ae399efece7
Issued 2007-06-11T00:00:00
Language ["en"]
Modified 2023-07-14T00:05:10
Publisher URI https://data.gov.ie/organization/environmental-protection-agency
Publisher name Environmental Protection Agency
Start of temporal extent 1971-10-01T00:00:00
Theme ["Environment", "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/ENVI"]
URI https://data.gov.ie/dataset/0a14bb98-42f4-43a1-9798-2ae399efece7
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provenance The biological quality of Irelands rivers are surveyed by EPA Scientists every 3 years on a rolling monitoring program. Biological quality is rated on a five point scale known as the Q Value system. A value of 1 is poor, and a value of 5 is excellent. EPA scientists log their Q Value results and validate them every year. The QRecords table is a summary of the QValue results logged for each station and the year that the station was surveyed. Not all stations have results for each 3 year cycle. The results are added to the QRecords table daily, once the EPA Scientist validates them. Results appear on the EPA Maps (Envision) viewer 2 days after they are validated by EPA Biologists. The QRecords table on the EPA data download page is update less frequently.
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