The Rivers dashboard has five modules providing guidance on the likelihood of detecting changes in a range of key water quality and ecological indicators, at existing monitoring sites and across the whole stream network of the selected catchment. These are the 'Water Quality', 'Ecology' and 'Minimum Detectable Improvement' modules.
Two other modules give useful information for river monitoring programme design. The Land Mitigation module is a tool for mapping the potential contaminant loss reductions from land parcels in a selected catchment, and seeing how these relate to modelled reductions in river contaminant loads.
High Flow Contaminant Load module gives an indication of the proportion of annual contaminant loads that occurs during high flow conditions.
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Likelihood of detecting modelled water quality improvement in all river reaches of a catchment as a result of land mitigation
Likelihood of detecting user-specified improvement in water quality indicators at existing monitoring sites
Prioritising location of ecological monitoring sites across a catchment to detect effects of land mitigation
Likelihood of detecting user-specified improvement in ecological indicators at existing monitoring sites
Mitigatable reductions in contaminant losses from land and predicted in-river contaminant load reductions
Proportion of annual contaminant loads during high river flows
Minimum water quality improvement detectable by monitoring at existing river monitoring sites
There were many datasets that went into developing the Rivers WebApp