Zonation diagrams

Splash Zone = Spray Zone

Google Map for Dunmore East

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Information on Dunmore East as part of the 7 village Sewerage scheme can be found here

Water Quality

The best place to get your Water Quality details with full maps/aerial photos is
the new Bathing Water website from the Environmental Protection Agency called SPLASH.

Task: Go to Annual Quality and select Waterford County Council under Local Authority. Check out Tramore and the two Dunmore beaches. Copy and pastedetails into a word document.

Task: go to Background and select Compliance assessment. Copy and paste table into word document.

Another useful site is the Beach Awards website. You can complete the Beach User Survey from An Taisce after the trip. There are also lists of beaches which achieved the Blue Flag and the Green Flag.
Task: Find out which beaches achieved Blue Flag and Green Coast awards in County Waterford.

Gathering information

Gathering information = Methodology
How did you collect the information and How did you Record it?

• a brief description of the main gathering methods used
• instruments used to make measurements
• recording of information in the field
• use of surveys, questionnaires
• use of secondary sources
• a discussion of the problems encountered.

Start by listing the action words....verbs that explain what you did.
We photographed, sketched, measured, paced,etc...

Where did you record the information? on a data sheet, on the questionnaire, in a list?
Describe the instruments that you used...had you used them before? Did you have any problem using them? Compass, trundle wheel,viewfinder, anemometer. Did you work in pairs, on your own?
What did you record from the notice boards? Why did you do this?

I did this in this way because I wanted to find out.....

DO NOT include any of the information that you find out.
You may include samples of how you recorded the information, draw the instruments and include a map of where you carried out your study.

Tide times

One of the exercises in preparation for coastal investigation is to check out the tide times.
Dunmore East

Tramore Surf school
Tramore surf report (Magic Seaweed)

Cheekpoint (from easy tide)

Irish Times for todays tides

Waste Management in Aquaculture

Check out this link to Clean Coast.
Under the heading of water quality and beach cleaning, you can get information on the Green Coast award (Woodstown).

For a pdf download on Waste Management in Aquaculture from 2004, click here.



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Beach Survey at Woodstown 2008

Waste from Oyster Farming

Can you eat Shellfish gathered here?

What a nice Meander?

At least the Rock Armour is useful for something!