Supporting technical and scientific reports

Listed below are the technical documents which support the UKTAG (August 2006) UK environmental standards and conditions (Phase 1). Final Report

These include research reports and papers that further explain the technical and scientific approaches. They are listed under the section headings of the UKTAG report.

WATER QUALITY - RIVERS

• Guthrie R, Duncan W & Owen R (January 2006). The development of oxygenation condition and ammonia regulatory values in UK rivers. Paper prepared for UKTAG Rivers Task Team to support stakeholder review. (Annexes contain supporting technical papers)
• Duncan W, Guthrie R & Owen R (January 2006). The development of soluble reactive phosphorus regulatory values in UK rivers. Paper prepared for UKTAG Rivers Task Team to support stakeholder review.  (Annexes contain supporting technical papers)
• Carvalho L, Bennion H, Darwell A, Gunn I, Lyle A, Monteith D & Wade M (2003). Physico-chemical conditions for supporting different levels of biological quality for the Water Framework Directive for freshwaters. Report by the Environment Agency.

WATER QUALITY - LAKES

• Monteith D, Juggins S & Bennion H (2005). Acidity-based regulatory physico-chemical standards for the "high-good" and "good-moderate" boudaries for UK Lakes. Unpublished report produced for SNIFFER R&D WFD60.

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS - TRANSITIONAL AND COASTAL WATERS

• Turnpenny AWH, Clough SC, Holden SDJ, Bridges M, Bird H, O'Keefe NJ, Johnson D, Edmonds M & Hinks C (2004). Thames Tideway Strategy: experimental studies on the dissolved oxygen requirements of fish. (Internal report, Thames Water Utiliities Ltd) 
• Devlin M & Painting S (2006). Nitrogen thresholds for UK waters- offshore, coastal and transitional waters. Paper prepared for UKTAG Marine Task Team (unpublished).

WATER RESOURCES (HYDROLOGY) – RIVERS AND LAKES

• WFD48: Development of environmental standards (water resources). Stage 1 - identification of hydromorphological parameters (SNIFFER report) (Mar 05)
• WFD48: Development of environmental standards (water resources). Stage 2 - typology review (Jul 05) 
• WFD48: Development of environmental standards (water resources). Stage 3 - environmental standards SNIFFER final report (Jan 06) 

MORPHOLOGY - RIVERS

• WFD49 (Rivers):A new impact assessment tool to support river engineering regulatory decisions (Aug 06) and appendices: WFD49(Rivers): Appendices (Aug 06)  Final SNIFFER report prepared to support UKTAG Stakeholder Review.
• WFD49 (Rivers):Peer review short summary (Aug 06) Interim report prepared to support UKTAG Stakeholder Review.
• WFD49c Cress (2006). Trialling of MImAS and proposed Environmental Standards