FOUW Incident report

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This form is for use by FOUW and associated citizen scientists to report pollution incidents in the Wye catchment.

Email *

Please provide your name *

Is this to alert us of a major concern raised in your routine monitoring (e.g. a big jump in P/N/EC or significant pollution/algal bloom)?

If so, please confirm which site and which date and add any further details below.

If it is concern not related to your sampling site (but in the Wye catchment), please provide details below.

Major concern raised in routine montioring

Concern not related to sampling site

What sort of incident are you reporting? *

Spike in phosphate levels (please only report if levels are 0.5 ppm (in England) or 2.5 ppm (in Wales) or higher against normally low levels

Spike in nitrate levels (please only report if levels are 2 ppm or higher against normally low levels)

Observable pollution (sight and/or smell)

Algal bloom (please also call the appropriate hotline, below)

Fish or other wildlife dead or in distress (please also call the appropriate hotline, below)

Excessive run-off

Use of herbicides/pesticides/fungicides within 5m of the river (within 1km of a drinking water or 500m of other abstraction point)

Spreading of manure/slurry/fertiliser within 10m of watercourse (6m if "precision" spreading)

Change of land use alongside watercourse

Other:

Required

Have you already reported, or do you plan to report this to the EA (hotline: 0800 80 70 60), NRW (hotline: 0300 065 3000 or on their incident form at https://naturalresources.wales/about-us/contact-us/report-an-incident/?lang=en) or Natural England (eia.england@naturalengland.org.uk)?

Please note FOUW may report the incident if you answer no.

Note that is is very, very helpful to both ask for an incident reference number and to state that you would like to receive feedback for the incident (if you do, NRW for example cannot close the incident until they have provided you with feedback) *

Environment Agency

Natural Resources Wales

Natural England

Not reported

If reported, please provide the incident reference number here:

Briefly describe the incident. Include any thoughts on possible reasons or anything unusual you have noticed.

If not already submitted via Epicollect, please also send or link photos or (better) a video to science@fouw.org.uk. *

Please provide the exact location of the incident, either in OS grid reference, latitude and longitude, what3words or if (if this is at a an FOUW sampling site) the site ID. *

Please provide the date on which the incident was observed *

YYYY

Please provide the time at which the incident was observed *

Time

Is this in England or Wales? *

England

Wales

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