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The soil around the river wye every year. much of that by spreading muck from poultry farms. but only some of that is absorbed by crops. the rest is extra. you're left with a difference of about 3,000 tonnes of phosphorus that is above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is nationally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you have too much phosphorus in your environment, it is likely that you are going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where soil phosph...

Muck from poultry farms. but only some of that is absorbed by crops. the rest is excess. you're left with a difference of about 3,000 tonnes of phosphorus that's above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is nationally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you have too much phosphorus in your environment, it's likely that you're going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where soil phosphorus levels are already high enough, if not even a little bit too high...