Interim Report on the Biological Survey of River Quality Results of the 2004 Investigations K.J. Clabby J. Lucey M.L. McGarrigle ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY An Ghníomhaireacht um Chaomhnú Comhsaoil PO Box 3000, Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford, Ireland Telephone: +353 5391 60600 Fax: +353 5391 60699 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.epa.ie Lo Call 1890 33 55 99 © Environmental Protection Agency 2006 Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the material contained in this publication, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Neither the Environmental Protection Agency nor the author accepts any responsibility whatsoever for loss or damage occasioned, or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full as a consequence of any person acting or refraining from acting, as a result of a matter contained in this publication. All or part of this publication may be reproduced without further permission, provided the source is acknowledged. Interim Report on the Biological Survey of River Quality Results of the 2004 Investigations Published by the Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland ISBN: 1-84095-186-9 02/06/300 Price: €15 ii PREFACE (AFF) in 1971 when some 2,900km of channel on the larger rivers and their more Section 65 (3c) of the Environmental important tributaries were biologically Protection Agency Act, 1992, requires the assessed for the first time. Since then the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to scope of the investigations has been “carry out, cause to be carried out, or steadily extended so that by 1990 virtually arrange for such monitoring as it may all of the rivers and streams depicted on consider necessary for the purposes of the the Ordnance Survey Map entitled "Rivers programme”.