PhD study: Phosphorus fate and management on the West Sedgemoor SSSI water system
What the buyer wrote
Study to look at how ditch management can be changed to accelerate recovery from nutrient enrichment which will include dealing with the existing burden of phosphorus (P) in the system, covering: • The effects of winter flooding • The optimum frequency of de-silting and weed cutting in the ditches and ways of extporting nutrients from the system (ie. how to deal with dredgings) • The partitioning of (P) between sediment, (P) and algae/Lemna and factors affecting this such as flow, water levels, seasonality and physico-chemical factors such as dissolved oxygen • The luxury uptake of (P) by Lemna and the possibility of 'harvesting' Lemna and other macroalgae to reduce internal cycling …
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- What the buyer calls it
- PhD study: Phosphorus fate and management on the West Sedgemoor SSSI water system
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Aug 2017
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2018
Who the buyer named
Clive Forman was the named contact on this notice.