{"id":5900,"date":"2023-07-25T22:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?page_id=5900"},"modified":"2023-07-25T22:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:13:20","slug":"bregagh-river-ecological-assessment-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?page_id=5900","title":{"rendered":"Bregagh River Ecological  assessment 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A base line\u00a0 ecological assessment of a section of the Bregagh River\u00a0 was carried out by Flynn, Furney Environmental Consultants on behalf of Kilkenny County Council and Keep Kilkenny Beautiful (KKB) in 1997. The purpose of this study was to gather baseline ecological and hydromorphological data to assess the overall quality of this section of the river and to contribute to the planning of actions for its maintenance and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations arising from the study included:-<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A dedicated electrofishing survey of the Bregagh catchment.<\/li>\n<li>Regular physicochemical water quality monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Large scale clean-up of all the urban trash<\/li>\n<li>A full investigation into all the discharge points<\/li>\n<li>Physical instream works<\/li>\n<li>Concerted environmental awareness campaign<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Since 2017 KKB has been working with\u00a0 Kilkenny Co Co\u00a0 and local city partners to implement many of\u00a0 the recommendations as set out.\u00a0 Follow up monitoring has also been undertaken as part of our Citizen science programme. Control\u00a0 \u00a0of the invasive Himalayan balsam has also been undertaken.<\/p>\n<p>Link under to\u00a0 the 2017 report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/River-Breagagh-Ecological-Report.pdf\">River Breagagh Ecological Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A base line\u00a0 ecological assessment of a section of the Bregagh River\u00a0 was carried out by Flynn, Furney Environmental Consultants on behalf of Kilkenny County Council and Keep Kilkenny Beautiful (KKB) in 1997. The purpose of this study was to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?page_id=5900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":31,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5900\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}