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This document provides good practice guidance for designing and reviewing routine water quality monitoring programmes at UK Nuclear Licensed Sites. For any given site the outcome of using this guidance should be a monitoring programme that is self-consistent and uses modern good practice techniques and arrangements appropriate to that site.

皇冠体育app intended readership is staff of SLCs and their contractors/consultants involved in:

• the design, implementation and review of routine water quality monitoring programmes

• the assessment/interpretation of the resulting data

Such staff will have varying knowledge, experience and background.

This document is therefore designed to:

• provide field technicians and junior/new technical staff with a better understanding of why monitoring is carried out, and of specific issues relevant to water quality monitoring on Nuclear Licensed Sites

• act as a 鈥榪uick reference guide鈥� for more experienced technical staff, by summarising key issues and signposting relevant existing guidance

皇冠体育app types of waters dealt with in this document are:

• groundwater
• open freshwater bodies
• 鈥榠n-pipe鈥� and 鈥榚nd of pipe鈥� surface water drainage
• inter-tidal surface waters

Excluded are:

• 鈥榠n-pipe鈥� or 鈥榚nd-of-pipe鈥� effluents
• offshore marine/estuarine waters
• deep lacustrine waters

皇冠体育app focus of the document is on routine (long-term) water quality monitoring. This is defined as 鈥渢he collection of water quality data and related hydrometric data at regular intervals over time, in accordance with a documented protocol, with defined criteria for assessment of results, such that results that are not in line with expectations can be identified and appropriate actions initiated鈥�. 皇冠体育app document is not primarily concerned with water quality sampling as part of site characterisation, which would usually precede the establishment of a routine water quality monitoring programme.

皇冠体育app guidance in this document concentrates on those aspects of routine water quality monitoring specific to nuclear sites and radioactive contaminants. It provides only summary guidance relating to:

• non-radioactive contaminants (other than those issues specific to nuclear sites)
• topics common to both radioactive and nonradioactive contamination, such as:
• sampling point design
• hydrochemistry
• relevant hydrometric parameters

It signposts out to other guidance and standards where applicable.