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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Monitoring data- A live data feed to our high spec stations at Brixton Deverill and Ebbesbourne Wake is now available. Please see the Monitoring data tab.
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Literature tab - New Factsheets
New Farm Case studies
New Posters
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Recent event - 24th April 2013 Stakeholder meeting
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CCM Hub - A new website to provide a repository and guide to knowledge for planning catchment restoration and mitigation measures to achieve good ecological status in rivers and other waterbodies for the benefit of local catchment managers, advisors and interested stakeholders
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| This website is co-ordinated by ADAS, for website or project enquiries please contact Fiona Grant |