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Water chemistry data for the River Frome, Dorset, UK, from 1965-2009

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

Data from weekly water quality monitoring of the River Frome at East Stoke, Dorset (National Grid Reference SY 867868). The dataset consists of nitrate, soluble reactive phosphorus, dissolved silicon, pH, alkalinity, potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium concentrations for the entire 44-year monitoring period, with total phosphorus, total dissolved phosphorus, electrical conductivity, water temperature, chloride, sulphate and ammonium concentration data for periods within the monitoring period. Daily average river flow on the day of sampling (extracted from the National River Flow Archive) is included. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/aa82fa99-d38c-47a7-9405-f0773edcd7a8

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
aa82fa99-d38c-47a7-9405-f0773edcd7a8
Extent (Latitude)
50.78° to 50.66°
Extent (Longitude)
-2.57° to -2.07°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2011-03-01
Dataset reference date (creation)
1965-01-04
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
©Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and FBA (Freshwater Biological Association)
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian); Freshwater Biological Association / Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng