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Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017)
This dataset contains pH, turbidity, conductivity and viral concentration information in river and estuarine water, wastewater, sediment and mussel samples collected in the Conwy River and estuary. The aim of data collection was to monitor wastewater contamination in the freshwater-marine continuum. Samples were collected by trained members of staff from Bangor University at four weekly between March 2016 and August 2017. Treated and untreated wastewater samples were collected at four wastewater treatment plants along the Conwy River. Surface water samples were collected at four sites, sediments at three sites and mussels at two sites. The VIRAQUA project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme (NE/M010996/1) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72
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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-08
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-02-02
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72
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Farkas, K., Cooper, D.M., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L. (2018). Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Bangor University Farkas, K. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Cooper, D.M. Author Bangor University McDonald, J.E.
Author Bangor University Malham, S.K.
Author Bangor University Jones, D.L.
Author Bangor University Farkas, K. Point of contact Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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Human Health and Safety
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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VIRAQUA
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Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH)
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Enteric virus monitoring
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- no limitations
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© Bangor University
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Farkas, K., Cooper, D.M., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L. (2018). Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72
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- Text, table
- Distance
- 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Health
- Begin date
- 2016-03-15
- End date
- 2017-08-01
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- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72/viralmonitorconwy.csv Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72.zip Supporting information
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dataset
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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The pH, turbidity and conductivity of the water samples was measured directly, whereas viral nucleic acid concentrations of norovirus GI and GII, hepatitis A and E viruses, sapovirus GI, adenovirus and polyomaviruses were determined in concentrated samples using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). As these quantification methods only measure nucleic acid content and give no indication on viral particle integrity and infectivity, a capsid integrity assay for noroviruses was also used. Viral concentrations are expressed in genome copies (gc) in one litre water or one gram sediment/mussel, where one gc refers to the genome of one virus particle. Data were collated into an Excel spreadsheet and exported into a .csv file for ingestion into the EIDC.
Metadata
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- 5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:18:34
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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