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Pesticide concentrations in the River Tone, Somerset, and the River Wensum, Norfolk

Measured concentrations of 52 different modern pesticides in both waters and sediments. Collected during routine sampling as part of the PhD project "Assessing the Impacts of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants on British Rivers: from Sediments to Fish". Samples were collected in 2021 and 2022, and pesticides were measured using UPLC-MS/MS at the British Geological Survey. Site coordinates are included in a separate tab. Full detail on sample collection, analytical methodology and data summaries, including interpretations, can be found in the accompanying thesis.

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Date (Creation)
2024-09-22
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608291
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Originator
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Pesticides
  • River pollution
  • Chemical pollutants
  • Water quality
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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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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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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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Norfolk County [id=7238]

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
Somerset County [id=10578]

Date (Revision)
2009

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Begin date
2021-10-15
End date
2022-08-02
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
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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No
Statement
Samples collected from 17 sites along the River Tone and 16 sites along the River Wensum in 2021 and 2022. Water samples were filtered and were spiked with internal standards prior to dSPE. Sediment samples were freeze-dried, sieved and ball-milled to <250 ?m. Samples were extracted using modified versions of the QuEChERS extraction (EN-method) and clean-up (AOAC-method) methods. All samples spiked with IS mix (Propamocarb-d7, Carbdendazim-d3, Acetamiprid-d3, Atrazine- d5, Propiconazole-d3, Prochloraz-d4, Dimethoate-d6). Samples were analysed using a UPLC-MS/MS fitted with a Hypersil GOLD C18 column. MS/MS was performed in SRM mode using ESI in positive mode. LC/MS conditions were based on recommendations from the column manufacturer. Detection and quantification based on precursor and product ions of the 52 analytes using a 7-level calibration for both water and sediments.
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25256bb2-cd59-0d7c-e063-0937940afdeb XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608291
 
 

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