Abstract
This document describes the monitoring proposed to comply with the conditions of the Food and Environmental Protection Act (FEPA) 1985: Part II (as amended), variation of licence reference 31640/06/1, issued to Rhyl Flats Wind Farm Limited for the Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm and dated 21st December 2006. A copy of the licence is attached in Appendix A.
This amended version has been produced for the following reasons –
§ To modify the monitoring programme to fit the proposed works program (in particular the movement of pile driving operations from 2007 to 2008)
§ To take account of the comments of CCW and CEFAS to previous versions.
§ Reflect change that have been made to the FEPA License, relevant to monitoring
For monitoring that commenced during August and September 2005 where the survey methodologies have been agreed with CCW and CEFAS and this document acts as a statement of these agreed methodologies.