Targets and Triggers News

Over the last couple of years, various experts (including from the Rivers Trust, the Environment Agency, and the FBA) have been working on a project called ‘Targets and Triggers’. The goals were to develop a more standardised method for setting site trigger levels, and to expand RMI so that the RMI score of a survey could not only be compared to a trigger level, but also to a ‘target’ score, i.e. the score that might be expected if the river was in pristine condition.

We’re very pleased to announce that this work is now live on our database on Cartographer, meaning anyone can now see the ‘Modelled Trigger Level’ and ‘Modelled Target Score’ for any site. Please read the information on this page of our website for an explanation of what these ‘Modelled’ scores mean.

Many thanks to everyone who worked on this project, and to CaSTCo for funding it.