5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:34 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017) 2018-05-08 publication 2018-02-02 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72 10.5285/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72 doi: 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 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Farkas, K. Bangor University k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Cooper, D.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-7918 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author McDonald, J.E. Bangor University j.mcdonald@bangor.ac.uk author Malham, S.K. Bangor University s.malham@bangor.ac.uk author Jones, D.L. Bangor University d.jones@bangor.ac.uk author Farkas, K. Bangor University k.farkas@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-3228 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities Human Health and Safety theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication water quality waste water contamination GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Conwy River GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation VIRAQUA Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Enteric virus monitoring otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Bangor University otherRestrictions 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 textTable 10 English utf8 health 2016-03-15 2017-08-01 -3.859 -3.768 53.08 53.301 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72/viralmonitorconwy.csv Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/5d19f6e2-1383-41ed-92d2-138d95bf4c72.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.