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MONITORING NETWORKS AND METHODS
piezometers. The seepage meter was found to be unsuitable for the River Tame environment
and was not used further after initial trials (Section 4.9.2).
More information on the equipment construction, installation and use can be found in the
following sections together with details of the sampling, chemical analyses, archive data and
methods of data analyses.
4.2 Archive data.
A considerable body of data for use on the project was obtained from a number of sources as
follows:
Environment Agency Data
- Continuous discharge measurements for the Tame from the gauging stations at
Bescot, Calthorpe, Water Orton 1990-96, 1998, 1999.The data were obtained
through liaison with the Department of Civil Engineering, Birmingham University.
- Continuous water quality measurements for the River Tame at Water Orton for
limited determinands, including temperature and conductivity, 1990 – 1996, 1998,
1999.
- Monthly spot water quality measurements from four locations on the Tame 1990-
1999, for Ammonia, Dissolved Oxygen, Copper, Nickel and Total Hardness
(Appendix 2).
- Flood defence survey data of several hundred river cross-sections (Appendix 3).
- Hydrograph data from 13 deep Agency monitoring wells (Appendix 4).
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