Table 14.3: Q95 flows for gauged watercourses upstream and downstream of the study area

Watercourse name

Gauging station ID number

Q95 (m3/s)

BFI

Values from NRFA website

River Roch (at Blackford Bridge) (upstream of Proposed Scheme)

NGR: SD806077

69023

1.485

0.53

River Irk (Collyhurt Weir) (downstream of the Proposed Scheme)

NGR: SJ848996

69043

0.912

0.6

River Irwell (at Adelphi)

NGR: SJ824987

69002

5.01

0.49

Values from the M60 J18 Simister Island Water Quality Study (Jacobs, 2020)

Un-named tributary of Castle Brook (Outfall 1)

NGR: SD828065

-

0.00081

0.799

Un-named tributary of Whittle Brook (Outfall 3)

NGR: SD836068

-

0.00532

0.707

River Irk (Outfall 5)

NGR: SD845047

-

0.24065

0.597

Bradley Brook (Outfall 6)

NGR: SD803044

-

0.00429

0.721