Title: The River Babingley. Volume 1 : executive summary : a report for National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region
Author: National Rivers Authority Anglian Region
Document Type: Monograph
Annotation: EA additional title info: final report - the river babingley : volume 1 : executive summary
Abstract:
Growing demands for water supplies, especially throughout eastern and southern England,
are placing increasing pressures on water resources. The development of groundwater
resources is continuing to attract intense interest, while at the same time there are growing
concerns for the protection of the high ecological and amenity values that typically
characterize groundwater fed streams. The River Babingley in north west Norfolk is
underlain by the major Chalk and Greensand aquifers and groundwater flows from these
aquifers play a dominant role in determining the ecological character of the river. In order
to assess how much abstraction might be allowed from the aquifers, it is necessary to
establish what minimum flow regime would sustain, without unacceptable deterioration, the
important ecological and amenity values or the river and associated wetlands.
Publisher: National Rivers Authority
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: Peterborough
Subject Keywords: Groundwater assessment; Wetlands; Water abstraction; Water resources; Nature conservation; Flow rate
Geographic Keywords: Norfolk; North West Norfolk catchment
Extent: 13
Permalink: http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:4219
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