The Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) project is a joint DEFRA, Environment Agency (EA) and Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) initiative working in three river catchments:
Avon (Hampshire)
Wensum (Norfolk)
Eden (Cumbria)
The principal aim of the project is to test the hypothesis that it is possible to reduce cost-effectively the impact of agricultural diffuse water pollution on ecological function while maintaining sustainable food production through the implementation of multiple on-farm mitigation measures.
The DTC project aims to achieve this by detecting shifts in baseline trend of the most ecologically-significant pollutants resulting from targeted on-farm measures at field to farm scales and assessing their effects on ecosystem function.
Many thanks to John Levell, Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust for the photograph of the salmon hen used in the project logo.
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Project Newsflashes will now be quarterly. Winter 2011/12 will be released in February
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Monitoring data- There are new data available for the Brixton Deverill High Spec station:
Please click on the Monitoring data tab to view this data
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Upcoming events - February 23rd Hampshire Avon DTC Annual Conference
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| This website is co-ordinated by ADAS, for website or project enquiries please contact Fiona Grant |