East Beach Pond Water Quality

Chichester District Council has been supporting The Manhood Wildlife & Heritage Group with their project to monitor water quality in East Beach Pond, Selsey. The group contacted the council’s Environmental Strategy Team last year and were put in contact with the Environment Agency. As a result, the group were loaned a sonde and telemetry unit, similar to those used in Chichester Harbour and at West Pole as part of the ongoing CHASM Project.

The aim of the East Beach Pond Group is to get some baseline monitoring data which will be used to see what types of submerged aquatic plants might be able to grow in the pond to enhance biodiversity and improve oxygen levels. In addition, the group also want to see how water composition varies during the course of a year.

Here is the live link to the East Beach Pond water quality telemetry data:

Or cut and paste the following into your browser:

https://telemetry-data.com/open?profile=EastBeachPond

To help the East Beach Pond Group gain the most they can from the data, a training course in sonde data analysis took place in January 2026. This will enable the group to gain as much knowledge as possible from the data collected to date, and in future. The training was delivered by the Environment Agency’s National Water Quality Instrumentation Service(NWQIS) and Meteor Communications.

An article on the recent sonde work undertaken by the East Beach Pond Group is being published in the spring edition of CDC’s Initiatives magazine, which has the potential to reach 124,100 residents.

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