Isodaq Technology has supplied a range of state-of-the-art hydrometric equipment as part of monitoring networks being established in two of the tree Demonstration Test Catchments (DTC) for research funded by the UK government department DEFRA and the Environment Agency for England and Wales. Orders were received from the University of East Anglia and the University of Newcastle/University of Lancaster for equipment to monitor rainfall, levels and flows in the Wensum catchment in Norfolk and the Eden catchment in Cumbria. The research work will monitor the effects of sustainable on-farm mitigation measures to improve water quality and river ecology as part of efforts to deliver the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive.

The principal aim of the DTC projects, which will last for 4 years, is to test the hypothesis that it is possible to cost-effectively reduce the impact of agricultural diffuse (non-point) water pollution on ecological function while maintaining sustainable food production through the implementation of multiple on-farm mitigation measures. These catchments have been selected for their variable geographical, geological, climate and agricultural land use.

The equipment supplied by Isodaq Technology for each catchment included Isodaq Frog RX GPRS loggers, Casella tipping-bucket raingauges, Pocket Gauger with Juniper Archer host PDA for recording current-meter gauging exercises plus the Teledyne RDi StreamPro ADCP flow and velocity profiling system.

Eden Demonstration Test Catchment - http://www.edendtc.org.uk/what-is-the-river-eden-demonstration-test-catchments-project/

Wensum Demonstration Test Catchment - http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk/factsheets.html