Pevensey Pennywort Control 2015/16
What the buyer wrote
Defra procuring on behalf on Natural England. Pevensey Levels is a 3500 hectare wetland site consisting of wet grassland criss-crossed by over 450 km of human made freshwater ditches. The area is Site of Special Scientific Interest, RAMSAR and Special Area of Conservation because of the plants and animals found in these ditches. The aquatic alien Floating Pennywort was first recorded on Pevensey in 1995. In 2009 Environment Agency and Natural England jointly funded a survey for the plant and found that 10% of water courses and approximately 45km were infested. Floating Pennywort is harming the site and needs to be controlled and ideally eradicated. Environment Agency and Natural England h…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Pevensey Pennywort Control 2015/16
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- works
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 14 Jun 2015
- Work ends
- 1 Dec 2015
- Kind of work
- Waste and environment
Who the buyer named
Emma Roberts was the named contact on this notice.