Identification

Title

Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017)

Abstract

This dataset contains pH, turbidity, conductivity and viral concentration information in river and estuarine water, wastewater, sediment and mussel samples collected in the Conwy River and estuary. The aim of data collection was to monitor wastewater contamination in the freshwater-marine continuum. Samples were collected by trained members of staff from Bangor University at four weekly between March 2016 and August 2017. Treated and untreated wastewater samples were collected at four wastewater treatment plants along the Conwy River. Surface water samples were collected at four sites, sediments at three sites and mussels at two sites. The VIRAQUA project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme (NE/M010996/1) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72/viralmonitorconwy.csv

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function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

health

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Human Health and Safety

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.859

East bounding longitude

-3.768

North bounding latitude

53.301

South bounding latitude

53.08

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-03-15

End position

2017-08-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-05-08

date type

creation

effective date

2018-02-02

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The pH, turbidity and conductivity of the water samples was measured directly, whereas viral nucleic acid concentrations of norovirus GI and GII, hepatitis A and E viruses, sapovirus GI, adenovirus and polyomaviruses were determined in concentrated samples using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). As these quantification methods only measure nucleic acid content and give no indication on viral particle integrity and infectivity, a capsid integrity assay for noroviruses was also used. Viral concentrations are expressed in genome copies (gc) in one litre water or one gram sediment/mussel, where one gc refers to the genome of one virus particle. Data were collated into an Excel spreadsheet and exported into a .csv file for ingestion into the EIDC.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Farkas, K., Cooper, D.M., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L. (2018). Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228

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