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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Forestry and Environment Impacts Addressing Water Quality and Biodiversity - Forest Operations and Eutrophication |
| Research Area | Water |
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| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Ted Farrell |
| 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 | 18/12/2001 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 18/06/2005 |
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| Project Keywords | Forestry; Environment Impacts;Water Quality; Eutrophication; Phosphorus |
| Project Abstract | The overall objective of this project is to determine the impact of forestry and forestry practices on phosphorus in surface waters. There are three major tasks in the project: Task 1 will determine the impact of forest operations on nutrient concentrations in surface run-off at sub-catchment level. The study will be conducted in the King's River catchment in Co Wicklow. The catchment is already fully instrumented and has been monitored under the Three Rivers Project. Task 2 involves the monitoring of phosphorus from an afforestation site, which had previously been in intensive agricultural management. The site will be monitored for a period of several months before planting in order to collect appropriate baseline data. Task 3 is a factorial experiment designed to measure surface-runoff of phosphate following the afforestation of a peat or peaty-gley soil. |