More than 100 people rely on the aquifer at Straitgate Farm for their drinking water. Aggregate Industries' plans to quarry the site leave no margin for error, no margin for climate change, no margin for safety, no margin for pollution above the maximum water table – despite warnings from one of the UK's top experts in hydrogeology. What could possibly go wrong?
Not what you want to see leaking into a principal #aquifer #PermoTriassicSandstone! Fuel storage tank was seen on a routine quarry site visit & clearly petrol contents have soaked into #sandstone bedrock which are highly permeable & used for #DrinkingWater #GroundwaterProtection pic.twitter.com/BYBBjQYAKd
— Geoscience EnvAgency (@GeoscienceEA) September 16, 2019
