Geological Society of London event – January 2019
Portsmouth, January 2019
The latest Solent regional Geological Society of London (GeolSoc) Seminar was held at Portsmouth University in January. Around 40 people came along from as far as Oxford and Guildford to hear about ChaMP for Water, and the impact and achievements of this collaborative partnership in reducing nitrate groundwater pollution.
Simon Deacon (Environment Agency Technical Specialist in Groundwater, Hydrology and Contaminated Land) explained that Brighton ChaMP for Water was designed in response to rising nitrate trends observed at Southern Water abstraction boreholes in the Brighton Chalk Block. The principal aim of the project is to protect and improve the quality of groundwater in the Brighton Chalk, and to ensure it remains a sustainable resource for public water supply. To achieve this, actions identified and agreed collaboratively in the Environment Agency’s Safeguard Zone (SGZ) action plans, the South East River Basin Management Plan, Southern Water’s Water Resources Management Plan (Draft) and National Environment Programme, and the Adur and Ouse Catchment Plan (groundwater chapter) will be prioritised and delivered. This puts into practice the concept of integrated catchment management.
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