ab423f8c-82a4-4e83-9c3f-8d0edc0e5195 eng series The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk pointOfContact 2015-12-17 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP 2009, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd., (CMACS), Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Post-construction (Year 3) Benthic Grab Survey 2011-03 publication Burbo Offshore Wind Farm is a twenty-five turbine, 90MW development located in Liverpool Bay approximately 6km from the coastlines of Wirral, Crosby and Liverpool. A licence (31864/07/0) was issued under the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) to the wind farm developer, SeaScape Energy Ltd, which allows them to construct and operate the wind farm. The licence conditions include a requirement to monitor seabed sediments and invertebrate communities in and around the wind farm to allow the Licensing Authority (Marine and Fisheries Agency) to consider: if any action may be required to mitigate or correct any adverse effects which may be identified.’’ The benthic (seabed) monitoring programme consists of surveys by grab sampling and beam trawling (the latter providing information on demersal fish as well as epibenthic invertebrates and being reported separately). The benthic survey programme has been undertaken by Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd (CMACS) on behalf of SeaScape. The programme commenced with baseline (pre-construction) surveys in autumn 2005. The report in this series presents the results of the benthic grabs carried out in autumn 2009, more than two years after completion of major construction activities, and considers results of all four surveys (baseline, during construction and two post-construction) in relation to the potential effects of wind farm construction and operation on benthic environmental receptors. The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk custodian Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd +44 (0)151 327 7177 +44 (0)151 327 6344 Head Office, CMACS Ltd, 80 Eastham Village Road, Eastham Wirral CH62 0AW United Kingdom info@cmacsltd.co.uk http://www.cmacsltd.co.uk/ originator notPlanned PDF Renewable Energy Lease area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Post-Construction monitoring The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision 1 Offshore Cable Corridor The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Sediment grain size parameters SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Sedimentary structure SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Fish abundance in water bodies SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Shellfish abundance and biomass in water bodies SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Bathymetry and Elevation SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-09-06 revision 103 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx copyright copyright http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng biota oceans -3.22354287211443 -3.14823996449776 53.470125002674 53.5039100333246 2009-09-16 2009-09-17 http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/search?q=#fq=fq%3DProject%253Amde1r1bb5587 download https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/196/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. dataset Grab sampling was carried out from the survey vessel ‘Halcyon Days’ on the 16th and 17th September 2009 and all samples were obtained using a 0.1 m2 Day grab to maintain consistency with all previous surveys. At each station the survey vessel was positioned to within 10 m of the target point using DGPS and actual sample position recorded to ± 2 m.