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Environmental Monitoring - Phase 5 Final Report (April 2019 - March 2020) Groundwater Science Programme Open Report OR/20/035 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GROUNDWATER SCIENCE PROGRAMME OPEN REPORT OR/20/035 Environmental Monitoring - Phase 5 Final Report (April 2019 - March 2020) The National Grid and other Ordnance Survey data © Crown R.S. Ward (1), P.L. Smedley (1), G. Allen (2), B.J. Baptie (1), P Copyright and database rights 2020. Ordnance Survey Licence Barker (2), A.K.A.P. Barkwith (1), P. Bates (2), L. Bateson (1), R.A. No. 100021290 EUL. Bell (1), M. Coleman (5), G. Cremen (6), E. Crewdson (1), Z. Daraktchieva (3), M Gong, Mengyi (1), C.H. Howarth (3), J. France Keywords (5), D. Hawthorn (1), D.G. Jones (1), C. Jordan (1), M. Lanoisellé Monitoring, groundwater, seismicity, ground motion, (5), A.C. Lewis (4), T.R. Lister (1), D. Lowry (5), R. Luckett (1), D. greenhouse gases, atmospheric Mallin-Martin (1), B.P. Marchant (1), C.A. Miller (3), C.J. Milne (1), composition, air quality, radon, soil gas, water quality, shale gas. A. Novellino (1), J. Pitt (2), R.M. Purvis (4), M.O. Rivett (7), J. Shaw (2), H. Taylor-Curran (1), J.M. Wasikiewicz (3), M. Werner (6) and Bibliographical reference S Wilde (4) WARD, R.S., SMEDLEY, P.L., ALLEN, G., BAPTIE, B.J., BARKER, P., BARKWITH, A.K.A.P., BATES, P., BATESON, L., BELL, R.A., BOWES, M., (1): British Geological Survey COLEMAN, M., CREMEN,G., DARAKTCHIEVA, Z., GONG, M., (2): University of Manchester HOWARTH, C.H., ET AL.2020. (3): Public Health England Environmental Monitoring - Phase 5 Final Report (April 2019 (4): University of York (National Centres for Atmospheric Science) - March 2020). 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Tel 0131 667 1000 email [email protected] Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Tel 020 7589 4090 Tel 020 7942 5344/45 email [email protected] Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT Tel 029 2167 4280 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB Tel 01491 838800 Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment, Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road, Ballymiscaw, Belfast, BT4 3SB Tel 01232 666595 www.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/ Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1EU Tel 01793 411500 Fax 01793 411501 www.nerc.ac.uk UK Research and Innovation, Polaris House, Swindon SN2 1FL Tel 01793 444000 www.ukri.org Website www.bgs.ac.uk Shop online at www.geologyshop.com Foreword This report presents the results and interpretation for Phase 5 of an integrated environmental monitoring programme that is being undertaken around two proposed shale gas sites in England – Preston New Road, Lancashire and Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. The report should be read in conjunction with previous reports freely available through the project website1. These provide additional background to the project, presentation of earlier results and the rationale for establishment of the different elements of the monitoring programme. Acknowledgements The work reported here has been enabled through a combination of BGS National Capability funding and a grant awarded by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Additional benefit-in-kind contributions have also been provided by the project partners. The authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by a wide range of organisations, community groups and individuals that have allowed the sampling teams to continue to undertake their work in The Fylde and the Vale of Pickering. 1 www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/shaleGas/monitoring/home.html i Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... i Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... i Contents .......................................................................................................................................... ii Technical summary ..................................................................................................................... xii 1 Greenhouse gases ................................................................................................................. 17 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 17 Monitoring activities..................................................................................................... 18 Analysis and discussion ................................................................................................ 20 PNR wind climatology ................................................................................................. 21 KM wind climatology ................................................................................................... 21 PNR Greenhouse Gases ................................................................................................ 21 Impact of industrial activities on sampled GreEnhouse Gases at PNR ........................ 24 KM Greenhouse Gases ................................................................................................. 28 Mobile Methane Measurement Surveys ....................................................................... 29 2 Air quality ............................................................................................................................. 44 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 44 The baseline dataset ...................................................................................................... 44 Results and discussion .................................................................................................. 44 References .................................................................................................................... 69 3 Radon .................................................................................................................................... 71 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 71 Indoor radon monitoring ............................................................................................... 72 Outdoor radon monitoring ............................................................................................ 75 Monitoring at the KMA site ......................................................................................... 75 Comparison of Year 1, Year 2, Years 3 and Year 4 results ......................................... 77 Summary - Radon ......................................................................................................... 77 References .................................................................................................................... 78 4 Water monitoring ................................................................................................................. 80 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 80 Water monitoring network ............................................................................................ 81 Depth profiles ..............................................................................................................