ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-05T08:32:51 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid High-resolution water quality data from the River Frome catchment, Dorset, UK, August-September 2022 2024-06-17 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f 10.5285/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f doi: Homan, T. (2024). High-resolution water quality data from the River Frome catchment, Dorset, UK, August-September 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f This dataset contains high-frequency water quality measurements taken at multiple sites in the River Frome catchment area, Dorset, UK. Water quality data consists of a mixture of 30-min sensor readings and frequent grab samples. Also included are high-frequency discharge readings at Environment Agency (EA) managed flow gauging stations and at sewage treatment work (STW) effluents. These measurements were taken between 12/08/2022 and 14/09/2022 inclusive. Measurements were recorded at multiple river sites, boreholes, and STW effluents. All sites are contained within the catchment area between the Environment Agency gauging stations located at Dorchester and East Stoke i.e., the lower part of the River Frome. In total, 24 monitoring sites exist. The data were collected for PhD project “Supporting river water-quality management by high-resolution modelling: a case study in a lowland permeable chalk catchment” awarded to Thomas Homan and funded under GW4 FRESH CDT, supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (Grant NE/R0115241). Water quality data were collected by Thomas Homan (PhD candidate at the University of Bath). Wessex Water Ltd. provided high frequency measurements of ammonium and discharge at their STW sites, borehole water quality measurements, as well as high-frequency nitrate measurements at sites: Louds Mill and East Stoke. The Environment Agency discharge data were provided under the terms of the Open Government Licence. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f Homan, T. University of Bath th502@bath.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1664-2849 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Homan, T. University of Bath th502@bath.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1664-2849 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Bath EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication sensor GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Water quality Environmental survey river discharge grab samples River Frome Dorset chalk stream river flow otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions Users of the data must cite that the dataset contains water quality data provided by Wessex Water Services Ltd., and hydrology data made available by the Environment Agency (EA) under the Open Government Licence v3.0 otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Homan, T. (2024). High-resolution water quality data from the River Frome catchment, Dorset, UK, August-September 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f textTable 1 English utf8 environment inlandWaters 2022-08-12 2022-09-14 -2.457 -2.16 50.668 50.735 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ccaf2871-1a1a-4cb4-aadf-883fb984a90f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data from four deployed YSI EXO2 sondes, provided as part of Meteor Communications Ltd.’s Water Quality as a Service (WQaaS), were downloaded from the MeteorCloud secure web portal. EXO3 sonde data were downloaded in the field from the sensor’s internal storage. Wessex Water Ltd. provided 30-minute NO3-N data, measured at Louds Mill and East Stoke using Hach Nitratax eco sc UV sensors (pathlength 5 mm, accuracy ± 5 %); grab sample results from their quality assured Scientific Centre; and high-frequency sewage effluent discharge data. Environment Agency (EA) hydrology data were downloaded from the online EA hydrology data explorer. All data were collated into one dataset and data wrangling and cleaning were performed in R statistical programming software. Only outliers that could be explained were removed from the dataset. Grab samples were used to spot-check the quality of the continuous data.