This report was commissioned by the Environment Agency (EA) on behalf of the
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) in 2004. It brings together data collected in 2003
and 2004 from 28 Welsh lakes in 11 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs).
The report
• collates and presents limnological data collected for the Environment Agency in
2003 for the purposes of site condition assessment,
• presents limnological data collected for CCW in 2004 for the purposes of site
condition assessment,
• provides a series of lake data reports on each of the 11 specifies SACs.
Sampling and analytical methods are described and the data presented in the report
include;
• site information (catchment geology, land use and lake characteristics and
bathymetries),
• water chemistry, temperature and oxygen profiles,
• macrophyte survey data presented as DAFOR rated species lists,
• short core analysis for diatoms (required for 19 of the 28 sites)
