Jersey Water Nitrate map (FOI)

Request

The date for nitrate levels assessed at weekly tests by Jersey Water has not been updated on the stream Nitrate Map hosted by Government of Jersey since week 20 2021. 

Jersey Water maps (arcgis.com)

A

Please provide the information from 2022 to date the weekly nitrate level test data for the Queen's Valley Stream, the Queen's Valley Side stream and the Franchville Stream. 

B

If other test data for phosphorus and pesticides is available, please could you also provide this..

Response

A

The Government of Jersey is not responsible for updating the referenced map as this is completed by Jersey Water, therefore, this information is not held, and Article 10 of the Freedom of information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The referenced map is included on the Government of Jersey site in relation to the joint Action for Cleaner Water Group.

However, Jersey Water has confirmed that the map has now been updated.

B

The requested information for 2022 and 2023 to-date is attached.

Queens Valley nutrients.xlsx

Queens Valley pesticides.xlsx

Article applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.