Aggregate Industries provided the following update this week in relation to implementing its permission to quarry Straitgate Farm:
We have now completed our initial visits to the owners of the private water supplies who are part of the monitoring scheme and confirm that it is our intention to start the 12 month of pre-commencement baseline monitoring in April this year. To confirm numbers we will be monitoring at 20 properties (note as previously this does not include Straitgate farm but we will be monitoring there). The reduction in number from that which I gave you previously is due to some properties not actually having a private water supply and also some that share the same supply.Regarding the boreholes on the Straitgate site itself there are 17 of those and please note that this number does not include PZ10 as that is included in the private water supply number given above.
You would think Aggregate Industries would know by now, but there are in fact 15 boreholes on the Straitgate site itself – PZ07, PZ08 and PZ10 are on third party land.
In answer to a subsequent request to confirm which springs and streams will also be included in the monitoring scheme, Aggregate Industries replied:
I can confirm that this is something we are looking at as part of the monitoring scheme and I will be able to confirm locations in due course.
