2012 Subacoustech Environmental Ltd. Kyle Rhea Assessment of Underwater Noise

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An assessment of the levels of underwater noise associated with the installation and operation of tidal turbine array at the Kyle Rhea site has been carried out in order to determine the potential impact on marine species. Estimates have been made of potential impact zones around the array based on previously recorded data of similar operations. For all species of fish the data indicate that will be no cumulative effects between adjacent turbines. For species of marine mammal, where the impact ranges are predicted to be larger, there are likely to be some cumulative effects between the turbines. For harbour porpoise the majority of the Kyle Rhea site will be insonified by levels in excess of 90 dB ht , resulting in a strong avoidance reaction, however in fast flowing waters such as Kyle Rhea, it is not uncommon for background flow noise in excess of 90 dBht for harbour porpoises.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2015-06-12
• Access contraints: Not specified
• Harvest GUID: 77205eea-de43-466f-a875-afd6df0bfba5
• Extent: Latitude: 57.2443° to 57.2282°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.6699° to -5.6498°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2012-10-29 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Marine Current Turbines Ltd (custodian, pointOfContact); Subacoustech Environmental Ltd. (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: cym
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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