Beach Monitoring
Background
The Environment Agency has placed a statutory requirement on Sellafield for monitoring of beaches between Ravenglass and the Solway using vehicle mounted monitoring equipment. The monitoring work will take place during daylight hours depending on weather and tides. The work is being done by Nuvia Ltd on behalf of Sellafield Ltd. If Nuvia Ltd detect anything during the monitoring they will retrieve it and deliver it to Sellafield for analysis.
Challenge
This type of monitoring has been carried out since November 2006 when the equipment was trialed on local beaches. The report summarising the results of earlier monitoring can be found in the media centre section. Fortnightly updates of locations covered and any finds will be placed here with more detailed reports being provided once analysis of finds is complete.
Fortnightly Update 11 November 2008
We must stress that beaches remain safe to use for the duration of the monitoring.
Map showing location of all finds up to June 2008.
Latest beach monitoring report.
2008 beach monitoring programme
Please note that this programme is dependant on the tides and weather conditions.
The following report has been produced by Nuvia Ltd and covers the large area beach monitoring from the South Solway coast to Drigg point in Cumbria, completed in financial year 2007/08. It summarises the systems and methodology used along with the monitoring and find data by area.
What we do
Beach monitoring vehicles
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