The effects of clearfelling and harvesting lodgepole pine trees on the quality of receiving waters in a productive salmonid blanket peat catchment in Burrishoole, Co. Mayo were investigated in this research study. The study site was contained within a 20 hectare area and was drained by a first order stream that received the flows from the ploughed furrows, mainly via the collector drains. The study site was divided in two parts. Two instrumented stations were established ? one just upstream (US) and the other just downstream (DS) of the area to be clearfelled. The instrumentation at each station included a flume, water-level recorder, automatic water sampler and probes for measuring physico-chemical water variables; 2 rain gauges were installed at the downstream station. The rainfall, flows and water quality variables at the two stations were examined every five minutes for about 1 year pre-clearfelling, during clearfelling and harvesting, and for 19 months post-clearfelling. During flood events, water samples were taken hourly at the US and DS stations for suspended sediment (SS) and phosphorus (P) testing; the SS sampling was carried out for one year and the P sampling for one month before clearfelling.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=53
Resource Keywords	Water level, pH, temperature, ORP, conductivities, phosphorus, suspended sediments, dissoved oxygen, ammoniun,rainfall,downstream,sub-Burrishoole catchment upstream
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2000-LS-3.2.4-M2
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Water Quality
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
Limitations on the use of this Resource	Currently (Feb 2008) the authors are in the process of publishing academic papers using the raw data collected in this project. Datasets will be made publicly available from this website when this process is completed.
Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	2
Project Start Date	Monday 5th January 2004 (05-01-2004)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Monday 25th April 2005 (25-04-2005)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Monday 30th July 2007 (30-07-2007)
Published on SAFER	Monday 18th February 2008 (18-02-2008)
Date of Last Edit	Tuesday 30th September 2008 at 13:18:33 (30-09-2008)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Tuesday 30th September 2008 at 13:07:48 (30-09-2008)

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The blanket peat catchment in Burrishoole, Co. Mayo were investigated in this research study. The study site was contained within a 20 hectare area and was drained by a first order stream that received the flows from the ploughed furrows, mainly via the collector drains. The study site was divided in two parts. Two instrumented stations were established ? one just upstream (US) and the other just downstream (DS) of the area to be clearfelled. The Burrishoole Valley, Co. Mayo, Ireland lies in a north-south direction. The catchment is an oligotrophic and poorly buffered system with an area of 8949ha and consists of three main lakes, the brackish L. Furnace, the freshwater lakes Freeagh and Bunaveela and a number of smaller lakes such as L. Avoher and L. Namaroon. The catchment area is drained by at least 70Km of small shallow streams. (http://www.diadfish.org/maj2006_fichiers/maj_11_06_slime/bburrishoole.pdf)

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