As last week, no major improvement in conditions to report. Ammonia has increased to 0.46 mg/L, at a pH 7.7 and temperature of 9.0 °C, the rate of increase was lower than previous weeks. Water clarity has continued to improved.
Testing next week will be carried out later due to availability and to ensure that we have a data point just before the chalking starts.
Despite being in flood, water tests are looking fairly typical for the time of year, although if the water continues to flood in we will start to see nitrates and phosphates rise higher and this Read more…
After the flooding, Darlow has now frozen around much of the perimeter, but we’ve kept monitoring the water chemistry due to the chance of increase levels of ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates coming in in Read more…
All looking good on the water chemistry front! No signs of any indicators of pollution and the oxygenation is good, even after the weed cut in early September. Water temperature is still high for the Read more…