Gardline to survey E.ON windfarm
The UK’s Gardline Marine Sciences Limited’s (GMSL) wildlife department has been contracted by energy group, E.ON, to carry out construction phase environmental surveys for the Humber Gateway offshore windfarm off the East Yorkshire coast.
Gardline is working closely with the E.ON, environmental consultants and a number of government agencies to design a construction monitoring programme.
The company will be conducting seabird surveys, marine mammal mitigation, subsea noise monitoring, herring spawning monitoring and suspended sediment monitoring. The seabird surveys will consist of boat based surveys following ESAS methods, little tern surveys and land radar surveys.
Gardline will provide seabird surveyors, marine mammal observers, passive acoustic monitoring operators, acoustic scientists and metocean scientists, as well as the necessary equipment for these surveys. The herring survey and airborne noise monitoring has been subcontracted to university and acoustic consultants.
The field work started in late April 2013 and is expected to finish in March 2015.
The windfarm will have 73 turbines, with a capacity of up to 219MW.
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