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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Eutrophication from Agriculture Sources (Phosphorus and Nitrogen) - Field by Field Assessment |
| Research Area | Water |
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| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | William Magette |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University College Dublin (UCD) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.30859, -6.22577 |
| Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/07/2002 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/04/2006 |
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| Project Keywords | Eutrophication; Agriculture; Phosphorus and Nitrogen; Nutrient loss |
| Project Abstract | This project will critically examine Magette's (1998) Ranking Schemes for the risks of losing N and P from the landscape to water resources. Magette's schemes include an assessment of pollutant loss risks associated with farmyards. Cost and time constraints prohibit field-scale and farmyard-scale water quality monitoring for this sub-project. Making use of existing data sources (e.g. Derg-Ree and Three Rivers Catchment Management Studies) and integrating this sub-project with other components will ameliorate these unfortunate limitations. Magette's ranking schemes will be evaluated at two levels of detail. An intensive evaluation will be conducted on 3 small catchments of diverse physical characteristics: the Oona catchment (Northern Ireland), the Dripsey catchment (Co. Cork), and the Clarianna catchment (Co. Tipperary). These catchments will be examined in detail under other sub-projects. Sub-project leaders of these studies have agreed to tailor data collection on nutrient use and physical catchment characteristics to match the requirements of Magette's ranking schemes. These catchments will thus provide comprehensive data sets for use in evaluating the ranking schemes. In particular owing to their size, these catchments will make it feasible to visit each farmyard and conduct a detailed assessment as prescribed in the rank schemes. |