Greater Thames Estuary Essex Zone Monitoring Survey: Interim Report 2

This interim report describes the ongoing work, which has been carried out on the Greater Thames Monitoring Survey from January 2002 to March 2003. The first interim which was issued in January 2002 (Heppell and Brown 2002), which details the reasons for the project and its aims and objectives.

The initial phases of the project comprised revisits to eight coastal sites, which had first been examined during the Hullbridge survey in the 1980s (Wilkinson and Murphy 1995). The data collected at these sites provided valuable information as to their current condition, the threats that they are facing and provided suggestions as to further work, which could usefully be carried out in these areas.

In addition to the brief revisits one site, Rolls Farm, was selected for regular monitoring over a two-year period. The results of the continuing visits to Rolls Farm are summarised in this interim report.