PART 1 // Coastwatch - All Ireland Survey (Autumn 2024)
PLAN YOUR SURVEY • Plan survey to start an hour before low tide. Use a tide table or Google: Low tide at (nearby town) or check www.bit.do/easytide • Print online survey form or get a hard copy from Coastwatch coordinator and download guide notes and ID posters to your phone. • Take the map of the survey area (photographed in step 1 or printed screenshot for viewing on your phone when out). • Allow enough time – at least 30min. for a simple straight dune site or promenade, 1 hour or more for a complex shore with streams.
(SECTION A) Background information on the 500m survey unit & surveyor(s)
(A1) Country Code
Select an option
8 - Republic of Ireland
23 - Northern Ireland
(A1) County Code
Select an option
1 - Louth
2 - Meath
3 - Dublin Fingal
4 - Dublin City
5 - Dun Laoghaire
6 - Wicklow
7 - Wexford
8 - Waterford
9 - Cork
10 - Kerry
11 - not available
12 - Clare
13 - Galway South & City
14 - Galway
15 - not available
16 - Sligo
17 - not available
18 - Donegal East
Northern Ireland
(A1) Block Code
(A1) Unit Code
(A2) Name of survey unit or area
(A3) First name
(A3) Last name
(A3) Email
(A3) Phone Number
(A3) Would you like to be named as a surveyor and results contributor?
Yes
No
(A4) Date of survey (DD/MM/YYYY)
(A5) How well do you know this site?
Well
A little
Here on 1st or 2nd visit
(A6) From present knowledge - is this unit (or part of) an officially designated area?
Yes
No
Don't know
(A7) If yes, tick which nature and/or human use designations/permits apply:
(UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve
RAMSAR Site
Natura 2000 site (SPA, cSAC or SAC)
National Park
Other Nature designation
Designated ‘Bathing Water’
Designated ‘Shellfish Production Area’
Access for vehicles (on shore parking, route to fields)
Other use right or designation (seaweed harvest, boat slip)
(A8) Is there public access to your coastal unit from land down to high water?
By vehicle
By foot
By wheelchair
Access is marked private or prohibited
Partially inaccessible
Inaccessible
Any comments to Question A7 or A8?
(SECTION B) Land and Inflows
(B1) What is the immediate hinterland (first 500m) mainly devoted to? (Tick up to 5 boxes)
Farmland: Intensive grazing
Farmland: Tillage, horticulture
Farmland: Rough grazing
Park, woodland, forest
Dunes
Wetland (bog, marsh, lagoon)
Rock or other bare natural sediment
Village or town residential
Tourist resort
Waste tip/dump (official and unofficial)
Industry, commercial area, or power station
Construction site
Transport (please chose below)...
(B1) Transport (as per above):
Road
Train
Carpark
Harbour
(B1) Other (as per above, e.g. golf course):
(B2) Please count all inflows into your survey area as you walk. Give details of up to 4 inflows in the order encountered. If there are more than 4, choose the most important in terms of potential pollution impact.
(B2) INFLOW #1: Information on inflows as encountered - or important ones:
Select a type of inflow
Pipe
Seepage
Drain, storm drain or irrigation canal
River or stream
(B2) Inflow size
Small
Medium
Large
(B2) If found, please select one or more of the following:
Animal life in/on water (if you see fish, pls add to comment below)
A bad smell from the inflow (if you smell chlorine, pls add to comment below)
Discolour/scum/froth
Dead Fish (if yes, please add a count/estimate and photograph in the comment below)
General Waste/litter (dumped or washed down)
Sanitary litter &/or visible sewage
Filamentous algae and/or sewage fungus (if a blanket layer, pls add to comment below)
Oil, petrol or diesel
Invasive Alien Species (see IAS poster); in water or on inflow banks?
(B2) Comments to the above and names of streams if available:
(B2) Did you detect Nitrite (NO2)?
Yes
No
(B2) Nitrate (mg/l NO3) levels (read result 1 min. after dip test):
(B2) Inflow Water transparency (where 1 = very poor, 5 = crystal clear):
(B2) Any other tests taken? Please comment below:
(B2) Upload photo
Select a photo
(B2) INFLOW #2: Information on inflows as encountered - or important ones:
Select a type of inflow
Pipe
Seepage
Drain, storm drain or irrigation canal
River or stream
(B2) Inflow size
Small
Medium
Large
(B2) If found, please select one or more of the following:
Animal life in/on water (if you see fish, pls add to comment below)
A bad smell from the inflow (if you smell chlorine, pls add to comment below)
Discolour/scum/froth
Dead Fish (if yes, please add a count/estimate and photograph in the comment below)
General Waste/litter (dumped or washed down)
Sanitary litter &/or visible sewage
Filamentous algae and/or sewage fungus (if a blanket layer, pls add to comment below)
Oil, petrol or diesel
Invasive Alien Species (see IAS poster); in water or on inflow banks?
(B2) Comments to the above:
(B2) Did you detect Nitrite (NO2)?
Yes
No
(B2) Nitrate (mg/l NO3) levels (read result 1 min. after dip test):
(B2) Inflow Water transparency (where 1 = very poor, 5 = crystal clear):
(B2) Any other tests taken?
(B2) Upload photo
Select a photo
(B2) INFLOW #3: Information on inflows as encountered - or important ones:
Select a type of inflow
Pipe
Seepage
Drain, storm drain or irrigation canal
River or stream
(B2) Inflow size
Small
Medium
Large
(B2) If found, please select one or more of the following:
Animal life in/on water (if you see fish, pls add to comment below)
A bad smell from the inflow (if you smell chlorine, pls add to comment below)
Discolour/scum/froth
Dead Fish (if yes, please add a count/estimate and photograph in the comment below)
General Waste/litter (dumped or washed down)
Sanitary litter &/or visible sewage
Filamentous algae and/or sewage fungus (if a blanket layer, pls add to comment below)
Oil, petrol or diesel
Invasive Alien Species (see IAS poster); in water or on inflow banks?
(B2) Comments to the above:
(B2) Did you detect Nitrite (NO2)?
Yes
No
(B2) Nitrate (mg/l NO3) levels (read result 1 min. after dip test):
(B2) Inflow Water transparency (where 1 = very poor, 5 = crystal clear):
(B2) Any other tests taken?
(B2) Upload photo
Select a photo
(B2) INFLOW #4: Information on inflows as encountered - or important ones:
Select a type of inflow
Pipe
Seepage
Drain, storm drain or irrigation canal
River or stream
(B2) Inflow size
Small
Medium
Large
(B2) If found, please select one or more of the following:
Animal life in/on water (if you see fish, pls add to comment below)
A bad smell from the inflow (if you smell chlorine, pls add to comment below)
Discolour/scum/froth
Dead Fish (if yes, please add a count/estimate and photograph in the comment below)
General Waste/litter (dumped or washed down)
Sanitary litter &/or visible sewage
Filamentous algae and/or sewage fungus (if a blanket layer, pls add to comment below)
Oil, petrol or diesel
Invasive Alien Species (see IAS poster); in water or on inflow banks?
(B2) Comments to the above:
(B2) Did you detect Nitrite (NO2)?
Yes
No
(B2) Nitrate (mg/l NO3) levels (read result 1 min. after dip test):
(B2) Inflow Water transparency (where 1 = very poor, 5 = crystal clear):
(B2) Any other tests taken?
(B2) Upload photo
Select a photo
(B2) The Total Number of Inflows counted in the survey unit was: (Include intermittently active inflows like storm drains):
(B3) If you know the survey unit well, please estimate frequency of sewage pollution incidents (This is focusing on water of your survey unit. Think of advice if a visitor was to swim or eat shellfish here):
Never
Rare
Occasional
Frequent
Usual
Seasonal
Notes / comments to B2 and B3:
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