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Metadata: 2016-2017, Jon Ford Environmental Consultancy, Kentish Flats Extension, Ornithological Survey Annual Report
Abstract:
This report presents the results of the bird monitoring programme that has been undertaken between October 2016 and March 2017. It forms the second year of the post-construction phase monitoring of the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm Extension. The purpose of this report is to document the surveys that have been undertaken during this period, including the survey routes covered, present estimates of the bird populations present, and discuss the main findings of the surveys including a comparison with the previous survey results and assessment of any influence of weather conditions and other relevant information that may have affected species abundance and behaviour. The main aim of this phase of the work is to determine the distribution and abundance of seabirds using the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm Extension (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 throughout the surveying undertaken. The KFE 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 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. The KFE development comprises 15 x 3.3MW wind turbines. 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.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 19169 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2016-2017, Jon Ford Environmental Consultancy, Kentish Flats Extension, Ornithological Survey Annual Report |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Ornithological Survey Annual Report |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 5f7f471b-adac-4195-b891-7be1b3b840b9 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | TCE-843 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2016-11-08 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2017-03-27 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This report presents the results of the bird monitoring programme that has been undertaken between October 2016 and March 2017. It forms the second year of the post-construction phase monitoring of the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm Extension. The purpose of this report is to document the surveys that have been undertaken during this period, including the survey routes covered, present estimates of the bird populations present, and discuss the main findings of the surveys including a comparison with the previous survey results and assessment of any influence of weather conditions and other relevant information that may have affected species abundance and behaviour. The main aim of this phase of the work is to determine the distribution and abundance of seabirds using the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm Extension (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 throughout the surveying undertaken. The KFE 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 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. The KFE development comprises 15 x 3.3MW wind turbines. 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. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The 2016-17 surveys reported here cover the survey area as set out in the agreed monitoring programme, and include the KFE site, the original Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm site, plus a buffer zone up to 6km from the original wind farm and the now constructed KFE turbines. The transect spacing used in 2016-17 was 1km within the main part of the survey area where previous baseline surveys have been undertaken (using that same 1km transect separation) and 2km on the more peripheral areas (to provide additional information on bird populations further from the wind farms), with a total length of 100km. The total area surveyed was 122km2 (Figure 2). These survey areas and transects were the same as those used in the 2014-15 pre-construction baseline and the 2015-16 first year post-construction surveys. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird counts |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird behaviour | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Post-Construction monitoring | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Renewable Energy Lease area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Elevation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.473833 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.1424 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.373278 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.0327 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Vattenfall | |
| MDE@vattenfall.com | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Jon Ford Environmental Consultancy | |
| jon@jonfordenvironmental.com | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd | |
| hello@heat-customers.vattenfall.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-843/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | Once published, there will be no limitations on public access. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Once published, there will be no constraints on public access. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2024-09-02 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-03-04 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |