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Project Metadata Element | Details |
Project Title | CatchmentCARE Catchment Actions for Resilient Eco-systems |
Research Area | Water Catchments |
Project Acronym | CatchmentCARE |
Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Taly Hunter Williams, Geological Survey Ireland |
Lead Institution or Organisation | Geological Survey of Ireland |
Lead Country | Ireland |
Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.3292634662369,-6.232423782348632 |
Lead Funding Entity | INTERREG |
Approximate Project Start Date | 01/11/2017 |
Approximate Project Finishing Date | 31/10/2022 |
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Project Keywords | cross border river catchments; better water quality, biodiversity and citizen engagement; cross-border river basins with good or high quality |
Project Abstract |
•Aims to improve cross border river catchments and ensure better water quality, biodiversity and citizen engagement that will contribute to the programme specific result “Percentage of cross-border freshwater bodies in cross-border river basins with good or high quality.”
–The current baseline is 32% with CatchmentCARE contributing to achieving the target for 2023 of 65%”.
•CatchmentCARE will meet aims by establishing
–3 water quality improvement projects in the Arney, Blackwater and Finn Catchments and install 51 boreholes across the region.
•This will be achieved through
–3 policy actions, 6 catchment actions and 3 community actions which were selected based on three critical criteria; measurable impact on water quality; transferable beyond the three catchments; and contribute to a project legacy.
•Actions will address water quality issues related to hydromorphology, point and diffuse sources of pollution, farm nutrient management practices, characterisation and monitoring of groundwater quality, lag times in response to the implementation of measures and an economic analysis of the cost of achieving the objectives of the Water Framework Directive in the three catchments.
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