EA Raw data which Buglife base their Neonicotinoid Insecticide Contamination press release on

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Dear Environment Agency,
As you'll be aware Buglife have today published a press release on Neonicotinoid Insecticide Contamination, for selected English rivers.
https://www.buglife.org.uk/news-&-ev...
Since they are claiming that the EA is the source for the info, yet provide no raw data could you so kind as to provide it.
They describe your study thus "Under the EU Water Framework Directive ‘Watch List’ initiative the UK was required to introduce a pilot monitoring scheme for all five commonly used neonicotinoids – Imidacloprid, Clothianidin, Thiamethoxam, Acetamiprid and Thiacloprid.
Twenty-three sites were sampled in 2016, 16 in England"
I am interested in the 8 rivers that they claim to be acute or chronically contaminated
and particularly in my local river the River Ancholme.
I am also requesting the 2017 similar data.
Spreadsheet or PDF would be the preferred format

Yours faithfully,
Stewart Green

Enquiries, Unit, Environment Agency

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Owen Boswarva left an annotation ()

I haven't checked in detail but it sounds like this could be data available from EA's Water Quality Archive:

http://environment.data.gov.uk/water-qua...

stewgreen left an annotation ()

Thanks Owen, but no the data doesn't seem there.
I chose the LIncs and Northants area option compliance and monitoring; got the spreadsheet and searched for the named neonic "Clothianidin" and there were zero matches in the spreadsheet.

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