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 time of year (18.7 °C).
More detail and general trends can be found in the charts linked here.
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…
The water chemistry is continuing to look good at Darlow; all indicators of pollution are undetectable (ammonia, nitrite and phosphate). Temperature is still high, but much relatively low compared to the last few years (19.6 Read more…