Why has UKTAG only assessed the implications of Specific Pollutants standards for rivers?
To date, monitoring of chemicals by the agencies has been limited to those areas across the UK where a risk has been perceived – often where activities discharge to rivers and estuaries. Occasionally, detail studies have been undertaken at a catchment or site to look at the accumulation of chemicals. As a result, in the UKTAG report, we have focused on the data that is available for rivers. As the extended WFD monitoring programmes are implemented in 2007, the agencies will collate more data, which will inform future river basin planning cycles.
