Chalk, gravel, sand and water: the proposed Bengeo quarry
Our community is debating a proposal to quarry sand and gravel from a field in Bengeo that contains boreholes supplying six million litres of water to Hertford each day. Here Dr Bryan Lovell considers three main questions:
How might quarrying affect the quality of water in the boreholes?
Does the project make sense commercially, when the cost of adequate protection of the water supply is taken into account?
Is it really necessary to extract this particular sand and gravel, so close to those boreholes?
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