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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he will publish the results of the investigation into the pollution of 15km of the River Kennet following the release of chlorpyrifos into that river at Marlborough in 2013; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he will publish the results of the investigation into the pollution of 15km of the River Kennet following the release of chlorpyrifos into that river at Marlborough in 2013; and if he will make a statement.
The Environment Agency is carrying out a comprehensive programme of ecological monitoring, including invertebrate and fish surveys. This is to assess the impacts and recovery of the River Kennet following the pollution incident in July 2013. This monitoring programme began during the incident and was repeated two weeks later. It was used to highlight the effects of the pollution on the water's macro-invertebrates.
In October 2013 the Environment Agency began the first of a series of recovery surveys. The evidence from its most recent surveys demonstrates many of the affected invertebrates, with the exception of freshwater shrimps, are recovering. Specific monitoring of these animals will commence later this month. The Environment Agency will share the results of survey work with all interested parties.
The next of these surveys is due now, but we are waiting for river levels to drop before these can be done. These surveys will continue quarterly until August 2014, when a review will be carried out to assess the need for continued monitoring of the recovery of the river.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress he has made in discussions with Thames Water on ending over-abstraction from the River Kennet; and if he will make a statement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress he has made in discussions with Thames Water on ending over-abstraction from the River Kennet; and if he will make a statement.
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The abstraction reductions in the River Kennet catchment are included in Thames Water's draft water resources management plan, to be implemented by 2017. This plan was recently referred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the right hon. Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson), for his decision on the next steps.
Thames Water has included measures to manage the abstraction reductions in its business plan submission to Ofwat.
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the earlier urgent question on floods I mentioned the River Kennet. As I have interests that adjoin the River Kennet, I should have referred hon. Members to my entry in the register. I apologise for not having done so, and I...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the earlier urgent question on floods I mentioned the River Kennet. As I have interests that adjoin the River Kennet, I should have referred hon. Members to my entry in the register. I apologise for not having done so, and I...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what damage was caused to the River Kennet by the recent chlorpyrifos poisoning; and what assessment he has made of the amount of the chemical involved in this incident.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what damage was caused to the River Kennet by the recent chlorpyrifos poisoning; and what assessment he has made of the amount of the chemical involved in this incident.
The Environment Agency's investigations have shown that many macro-invertebrates—that is those which are visible to the eye without the aid of a microscope—have been killed but there have been no reports of any fish deaths. The Environment Agency traced the effects of the pollution between Marlborough and Hungerford with macro-invertebrates being affected for this 15 km stretch. The Environment Agency did not detect any more effects downstream of Hungerford.
In 2003, a small amount of a Chlorpyrifos-based pesticide entered the watercourse in a similar incident on the River Wey at Bordon. To date the Environment Agency has been unable to identify the source of the River Kennet incident but comparison with the Bordon incident indicates that only a small quantity of pesticide may have caused it. If the pesticide had been in higher concentrations the Environment Agency would have expected a fish kill.
Investigations are still ongoing. The Environment Agency is working with local groups to support the fish population.
Public petition from residents of Reading for action to delete the Kennet meadows in Southcote, Colney park, Calcott and Katesgrove from the draft south-east plan. That is the area covered by the Prudential proposals to build 7,500 homes on the functional floodplain of the River Kennet in south-west Reading, plans...
Public petition from residents of Reading for action to delete the Kennet meadows in Southcote, Colney park, Calcott and Katesgrove from the draft south-east plan. That is the area covered by the Prudential proposals to build 7,500 homes on the functional floodplain of the River Kennet in south-west Reading, plans...
I wish to present a 1,500-signature petition calling on the Minister with responsibility for planning to delete the Kennet meadows in Southcote, Colney park, Calcott and Katesgrove from the draft south-east plan. That is the area covered by the Prudential proposals to build 7,500 homes on the functional floodplain of...
I wish to present a 1,500-signature petition calling on the Minister with responsibility for planning to delete the Kennet meadows in Southcote, Colney park, Calcott and Katesgrove from the draft south-east plan. That is the area covered by the Prudential proposals to build 7,500 homes on the functional floodplain of...
Adjournment debate on the River Kennet, Wiltshire.
Adjournment debate on the River Kennet, Wiltshire.
If he will propose the River Kennet as a special area of conservation.
If he will propose the River Kennet as a special area of conservation.