Pesticide monitoring

For two years, the ACP monitored the concentrations of herbicides in Ballycanew and Castledockrell as part of the EU Horizon 2020-funded WaterProtect project. Passive samplers were used for continuous monitoring of the rivers and they provided time weighted mean concentrations over 14-day periods. In this video, Per-Erik Mellander, Catchment Scientist explains more and futher information is also available at these links:

Article for Water Quality Week and Open access paper

The monitoring continues in a number of catchments throughout the country