Ireland Catchment Practice
Irish river, lake, estuary, lagoon, catchment, restoration, monitoring, citizen-science, and water-quality signals.
Method note
How this radar works
The Nanny-Delvin Water Radar is a daily, source-led catchment intelligence layer. It is designed to support practical Trust action, not to collect every possible water-related link.
Radar structure
Four operational lanes
Waterbody Evidence and Alerts
Incidents, ecological signals, invasive species, fish kills, septic pressures, slurry/manure timing, rainfall-runoff issues, estuary and lagoon items, and practical waterbody intelligence.
Grants and Opportunities
Funding routes relevant to community water action, citizen science, biodiversity, catchment restoration, wetlands, education, and Trust partnership work.
Practical Research Papers and Reviews
Research is ranked Ireland-first, then comparable temperate systems, then transferable NbS and water-quality evidence where it helps action.
Ranking logic
How usefulness is estimated
The score is not a truth claim. It is a prioritisation aid. Items receive boosts for practical relevance, local relevance, Irish applicability, source trust, freshness, grant fit, research usefulness, and pressure categories.
Pressure categories watched
Nanny-Delvin local signals, River Nanny, River Delvin, East Meath, North Fingal, septic / domestic wastewater, manure / slurry timing, agricultural runoff, nutrients, sediment and hydromorphology, incident alerts, invasive species, Spartina and saltmarsh, birds and wetland ecology, river ecology, citizen science, NbS and restoration, funding, and policy / governance.
Known limitations
Google News RSS can miss items, source pages change structure, grant deadlines may require manual checking, and research relevance is inferred from metadata and abstracts. The radar should support human judgement, not replace it.
Operational files
Auditability
The radar writes daily JSON files so outputs can be checked, archived, and reused.
Latest radar data
Open JSON
Current generated items used by the page.
Source health
Open JSON
Source checks, item counts, failures, and coverage summary.
Weekly practical digest
Open JSON
Top practical signals ranked for Trust action.
Daily archive index
Open JSON
Dated snapshots retained for traceability.