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Parameter: Various gases
including SO2;, NO2 and VOCs |
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Monitoring Activity: Real
time monitor |
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Location and Timescales:
One small pyre directly downwind over 4 days |
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Dumfries & Galloway Council |
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Assess acute public health risk |
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Dumfries & Galloway Council |
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Parameter: PM10 particulate
in air |
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Monitoring Activity: High
volume air sample on filter |
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Location and Timescales:
One small pyre directly downwind over 4 days |
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Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Dumfries & Galloway
Council |
Assess acute public
health risk |
Dumfries & Galloway Council |
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Parameter: Dioxin in
air |
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Monitoring Activity: Real
time monitor |
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Location and Timescales:
One small pyre directly downwind over 4 days |
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Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Atomic Energy Authority
(AEA) |
Dumfries & Galloway
Council |
Assess long-term public
health risk |
Dumfries & Galloway Council |
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Parameter: Gas and odour
including H2S, methane, VOCs and formaldehyde |
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Monitoring Activity: Real
time monitors and charcoal tubes |
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Location and Timescales:
On-site at the Birkshaw mass burial site and at various locations
off-site in response to local concerns over odour |
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Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Dumfries & Galloway
Council |
Assess nuisance and
to inform overall management of the site |
Dumfries & Galloway Council |
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Parameter: Chemical
analysis of ground-water with additional microbiological analyses
if necessary |
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Monitoring Activity: Collection
of water samples from monitoring wells |
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Location and Timescales: Sampling
programme at Birkshaw mass burial site. Results to be provided to
SEERAD and SEPA. Note: SEPA initially sampled monitoring wells weekly
during April 2001, Enviros now sampling weekly
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Enviros Consultancy |
Sub-Contracted |
SEERAD |
Assess impact of operations
on groundwater and water supplies. To inform management of site. |
SEERAD |
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Parameter: Chemical
and ecological analysis of surface water |
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Monitoring Activity: Collection
of samples from local watercourses |
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Location and Timescales: Initial daily
sampling around the Birkshaw mass burial site. Now fortnightly sampling
due to no evidence of pollution from initial monitoring. Additional
monitoring also being undertaken by SEPA at burial site near Newcastleton
Chemical analysis only to date
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SEPA |
SEPA |
SEPA |
Assess any off-site
environmental impacts. Inform site operations and controls over leachate
etc., |
SEPA |
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Parameter: Dioxin and
PAH in drinking water |
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Monitoring Activity: Collection
of drinking water samples |
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Location and Timescales: Samples from
each of the private and public water supplies considered to be most
at risk near any pyre. One sample will be taken from each private
supply borehole and a sample from the inlet and outlet of each public
supply surface water reservoir. In addition a control sample will
be taken in each case some distance away from (1) the private supplies
and (2) the public supplies
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LAs for private water
supplies, WAs for public water supplies |
Glasgow Scientific
Services |
Dumfries and Galloway
Council / WOSWA |
Assess the safety
of drinking water |
Dumfries and Galloway Council
/ WOSWA |
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Parameter: Dioxin and
PAH |
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Monitoring Activity: Collection
of samples of potentially polluted herbage and soils* |
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Location and Timescales: Three samples
of herbage and of soils to be collected from each of the locations
identified
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by: |
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used to: |
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University of Liverpool
Environment Research and Consultancy Unit * |
MAFF Central Science
Lab in York * |
FSA |
Assess food safety
and determine stocking policy |
FSA |
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Parameter: Dioxin in
animal produce |
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Monitoring Activity: Collection
of dairy products, free range eggs, meat, fish and vegetables |
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Location and Timescales: To be advised
by FSA Scotland following discussion with other FSA colleagues
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Dumfries and Galloway
Council / Scottish Borders Council |
Glasgow Scientific
Services / Central Service Laboratory |
Dumfries and Galloway
Council / FSA |
Assess food safety |
FSA |
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* As part of the UK-wide programme
co-ordinated by the Environment Agency
N.B. Agencies in the Dumfries and Galloway area have been specified
in the above table. Similar arrangements proportional to risk are
envisaged for the Scottish Borders Area with respect to water monitoring.
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Health issue: Human
foot and mouth |
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Monitoring body: Local
GPs and hospital clinicians |
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Surveillance system: Samples sent
to PHLS for virology and serology
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Reporting system: PHLS
reports back to sample provider and to Health Boards |
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Health issue: Acute
respiratory and cardiovascular health conditions |
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Monitoring body: Local
GPs and hospital clinicians, plus specific audit of general practices
by Annandale and Eskdale Local Healthcare Co-operative |
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Surveillance system: Enhanced routine
community health monitoring programmes. GP audit by Annandale and
Eskdale Local Healthcare Co-operative
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Reporting system: Data
will be collated and analysed by the local Health Board and reported
through SCIEH. GP audit data may be published elsewhere. |
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Health issue: Gastro-intestinal
infections possibly associated with polluted drinking water |
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Monitoring body: Surveillance
systems already in place via the Department of Public Health |
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Surveillance system: Identification
of cases of diarrhoeal illness that might be linked to private water
supplies
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Reporting system: Local
GPs, hospital clinicians and laboratories report cases to the local
CPHM who will collate reports and send on to SCIEH. |
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Health issue: Longer
term health concerns |
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Monitoring body: Information
and Statistics Division and the Scottish Centre for Infection and
Environmental Health |
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Surveillance system: Routine surveillance
programmes (cancer registration etc.)
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Reporting system: Data
will be collated and analysed, as appropriate by ISD and SCIEH |
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Health issue: Variant
CJD |
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Monitoring body: Local
GPs and hospital clinicians |
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Surveillance system: CJD Surveillance
Unit at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh
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Reporting system: Local
GPs and hospital clinicians report suspected cases to the CJD Surveillance
Unit |
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Health issue: Occupational
health and safety |
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Monitoring body: Employers
and local GPs and hospital clinicians |
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Surveillance system: Employer's occupational
health and safety systems or the other health surveillance systems
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Reporting system: Employer's
occupational health and safety systems or the other reporting systems
noted here as appropriate |
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Health issue: Mental
health in the affected communities |
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Monitoring body: Canonbie
General Practice |
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Surveillance system: Repeat local
health survey in the locality
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Reporting system: Method
of public dissemination of results has yet to be decided |
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