Annual Report for 2010/11 and Forward Programme - Sellafield Ltd

SSEM/2011/4730 June 2011visit. The difference due to overlap between days can be significant, especially if accessroutes to various parts of the beach are limited. The percentages in Table 3.1 below havebeen calculated using the total area within the designated box on a map and the realisticarea that is available after tide, rocks and access factors have been taken into account.Table 3.1. Total hectares monitored for each beach during the 2010/11 monitoring programme.Monitoringarea3.1.4 Beach FindsNumber of daysArea covered(ha)Available area(ha)% of monitoringareaAllonby 4 10.44 136.90 8%Harrington 6 3.90 12.24 32%Parton 8 4.14 3.53 117%Whitehaven 10 7.19 3.86 186%St Bees 37 53.07 28.50 186%Nethertown 7 3.67*Difficult toassessN/ABraystones 57 76.59 18.90 405%Sellafield 49 67.13 54.10 124%Seascale 32 51.06 80.70 63%Drigg 20 41.81 196.70 21%* Nethertown is a very rocky beach with lots of boulder so sand coverage is difficult to calculate.During the 2010/11 monitoring programme, a total of 383 finds were recovered from thebeaches surrounding the Sellafield Nuclear Licensed Site (Table 3.2, Figure 3.4). Of these,348 were classified as particles and the remaining 35 were classified as stones.Table 3.2. Total particle and stone beach finds during the 2010/11 monitoring programme.MonitoringareaParticles recoveredin 2010/11Stones recoveredin 2010/11Total in2010/11Allonby 0 0 0Harrington 2 0 2Parton 0 0 0Whitehaven 9 0 9St Bees 60 0 60Nethertown 0 0 0Braystones 115 0 115Sellafield 142 35 177Seascale 10 0 10Drigg 10 0 10Total 348 35 383© Nuclear Decommissioning Authority 2011. 19