2017-2018 Jon Ford Environmental Consultancy Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm Post Construction Bird Surveys

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This report presents the results of the bird monitoring programme that has been undertaken between October 2017 and March 2018, and summarises the overall results from that programme. It forms the third and final year of the post-construction phase monitoring of the Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm (KFE). As well as reporting the surveys carried out in the final field survey winter, this report also includes analysis of all of the post-construction data, comparing key species distribution and abundance with the pre-construction baseline, in order to determine the effects of the wind farm on the local bird populations. The main aim of this phase of the work was to determine the distribution and abundance of seabirds using the KFE site and its surrounds after construction of the wind farm, and compare this with the pre-construction baseline. Standard survey methodologies have been used, following Camphuysen et al. (2004) and have remained consistent through all the surveys. The KFE development comprises 15 x 3.3MW wind turbines. It is located in the Outer Thames Estuary, approximately 7 kilometres off the north Kent coast. KFE extends over an area of 7.8km2 The original Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm (KF) has been operational since 2005 and consists of 30 x 3MW wind turbines. Offshore construction of the KFE commenced in April 2015 with the installation of turbine foundations. Piling of the turbine foundations was completed on 23 May 2015. Turbine installation was completed on 10 August 2015, and all 15 turbines were generating power to the National Grid from 12 September 2015. Two export cables have been installed alongside the existing cables and come ashore near to Hampton Pier, Herne Bay. The onshore cable route follows the existing Kentish Flats cable route to the Red House Farm substation on Thornden Wood Road. The export cable is 18km, with 12km of inter-array cables connecting the turbines into strings. The cables were installed using a water jetting method with a final burial depth in the range of 0.5 to 2m below the seabed.

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Latitude: 51.4685° to °
Longitude: 1.0327° to 1.1424°
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2019-06-03 (publication)
2017-10-27 (creation)
2019-06-03 (revision)
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