Ribble Pilot
With the introduction of the European Commission’s Water Framework
Directive (WFD), the concept of general protection of the aquatic
ecology to a high level was introduced by the European Union. PML
Applications Ltd was funded by the Environment Agency and as part
of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy, to develop tools for
water quality risk assessment alongside more traditional measures
of water quality (chemical and biological) used by regulators.
PML Applications Ltd worked together with other
organizations on the Ribble Estuary (Lancashire, UK) to compare a
number of different techniques which might be used to monitor the
status of an estuary.
