{"id":2031,"date":"2024-04-08T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mhwesg.org.uk\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2024-04-09T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T06:48:48","slug":"dated-mud-cores-milford-haven-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhwesg.org.uk\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"– Dated Mud Cores – Milford Haven Waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr Andy Marriott (taking a record of GPS location) and Dr Chris Vane taking a core sample from intertidal mud in the Milford Haven Waterway.<\/p>\n

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Usually the MHWESG repeats the same surveys over multiple years to create a timeline of surveillance data relevant to the environmental health of the Milford Haven Waterway. In October 2023, the MWHESG embarked on a \u2018one-off\u2019 project which remarkably can do the same thing.<\/p>\n

The MHWESG contracted the British Geological Society (BGS) to collect multiple cores from areas of soft mud. The BGS are going to use isotope dating techniques to determine when layers of mud in the cores were deposited. As certain contaminants bind themselves to fine mud particles, levels of contaminants associated with the dated layers of mud are also going to be measured by the BGS through a series of laboratory analyses, thus providing a timeline of contaminant data for the Milford Haven Waterway.<\/p>\n

Dr Chris Vane and Dr Andy Marriott spent 4 days in Pembrokeshire taking cores of soft mud on shores most likely to have a net build-up of mud over the decades and not to have been physically disturbed. Sites where cores were gathered include Little Milford, Boulston, Garron Pill, Mill Bay, Cosheston Pill, Pembroke River, Martin\u2019s Haven (Pwllchrochan Flats) and Angle Bay.<\/p>\n

Concentrations of the following are to be measured at intervals along each core:<\/p>\n