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Dissolved methane concentrations in groundwater (NERC Grant NE/R017832/1)
This dataset contains dissolved methane concentrations from groundwater in Great Britain, predominantly from England. Data were collated in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) format from four publicly accessible sources: the British Geological Survey (from Bell et al., 2017), the Environment Agency for England (from the online Water Quality Archive), and local baseline data for the shale gas sites of Preston New Road (from Cuadrilla Resources) and Kirby Misperton (from Third Energy). In total, 2997 dissolved methane concentrations are included in the dataset and were collected from 922 unique locations from October 1992 to July 2018. The data were used within a Bayesian framework to create a dynamic baseline (a baseline that can change in time and space to reflect ongoing environmental change) that can predict the probability that a change in dissolved methane concentration has occurred, for example in the context of monitoring aquifers at shale gas sites using hydraulic fracturing methods. The data presented are the underlying dataset to Wilson et al., 2020, Science of the Total Environment:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134854.
Bell, R. A., Darling, W. G., Ward, R. S., Basava-Reddi, L., Halwa, L., Manamsa, K., & Dochartaigh, B. Ó. (2017). A baseline survey of dissolved methane in aquifers of Great Britain. Science of the Total Environment, 601, 1803-1813. Wilson, M. P., Worrall, F., Davies, R. J., & Hart, A. (2020). A dynamic baseline for dissolved methane in English groundwater. Science of The Total Environment, 711, 134854.
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2021-04-07
University of Durham
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Dr Miles Wilson
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Research Assistant
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Department of Earth Sciences
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Durham
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DH1 3LE
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- Maintenance and update frequency
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Groundwater
- Environmental science
- Methane
- Aquifers
- Shale
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Water
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- Limitations on Public Access
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- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
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- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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- Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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- Geoscientific information
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GBN
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009
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GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
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- 1979
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- 1992-10-01
- End date
- 2018-07-31
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MS Excel
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MS Excel
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- dataset
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Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
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Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- The BGS dissolved methane concentration data were downloaded from the supplementary material of Bell et al. (2017). Dissolved methane concentrations in English groundwater were downloaded from the Environment Agency Water Quality Archive for the years 2000-2017, inclusive. Only those entries with identifiable grid references and location names were used. Measurements taken for statutory failures and unplanned reactive monitoring were not removed from the dataset. Waste monitoring measurements were also retained in the dataset. Dissolved methane concentrations for the Preston New Road site were compiled from the Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. ePortal. Where multiple concentration measurements were taken within a month the mean concentration was used. The same approach was used for the Kirby Misperton site using the monitoring reports submitted by Third Energy to the Environment Agency.
Metadata
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- bf8b16d9-58ad-2a6f-e054-002128a47908 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-12-05
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
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NOTTINGHAM
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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NG12 5GG
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United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
