Monitoring
A five-year monitoring programme is being undertaken to describe ecological development of site and determine whether it meets compensation targets. This ‘site success’ monitoring will include surveys of overwintering waterbirds, benthic invertebrates, saltmarsh vegetation growth, sedimentation/erosion patterns and the settlement characteristics of the recharge area). To confirm the findings of the assessment work and test the effectiveness of the mitigation measures this 5-year programme includes ‘impact verification’ monitoring with surveys of flow speeds, shoreline topography and channel bathymetry in the estuary and surveys spring breeding bird, protected species, and aquatic invertebrates in the mitigation areas.
Details of the findings will be presented on this web-site throughout
this 5-year period.