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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2017-2018 Jon Ford Environmental Consultancy Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm Post Construction Bird Surveys</dc:title>
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  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=010_d1a5eb44e92499034e17a8dc151e6c73</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20190603 20171027</dc:date>
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