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The over-riding objective of the monitoring programme is to achieve the objectives of the WFD – i.e. achievement of ‘Good Status’ generally and to retain ‘High’ and ‘Good Status’ where such already exists. Towards this end, the programme:
Under the Water Framework Directive there are 3 types of Monitoring:
Further information on monitoring of Irish rivers, lakes, groundwater, transitional (estuarine) and coastal waters is available in the water monitoring section of this website.
Water Quality and WFD GIS Data
Water Quality data are also available to download from the GIS section on our website: http://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download
Detail of the monitoring programmes is available in a WFD monitoring programme report. This document provides an overview of the WFD monitoring programme for all water categories: Rivers, Lakes, Transitional and Coastal waters; Groundwater and Canals. It also deals with Quality Control and Quality Assurance; Precision and Confidence of Monitoring Programmes, and Data Management and Reporting and provides a detailed breakdown of the WFD monitoring programme for each water category. For each water category, subnets are defined; the elements to be covered are outlined and the frequency of monitoring is specified for each network.
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