Baseline England and Wales

Baseline England and Wales

BGS carried out investigations of the baseline quality of groundwater in aquifers of England and Wales between the late 1990s and 2015. A series of 23 reports and an overall synthesis report were produced as part of this investigation in a collaboration between BGS and the Environment Agency between 2002 and 2005. These are available for download below.

Front page of report - OR11060
Sherwood Sandstone of Devon and Somerset report.

These reports were produced through a collaboration between BGS and the Environment Agency.

• The Triassic sandstones of the Vale of York
• The Permo-Triassic sandstones of west Cheshire and the Wirral
• The Permo-Triassic Sandstones of South Staffordshire and North Worcestershire
• The Chalk of Dorset
• The Chalk of the North Downs, Kent and east Surrey
• The Chalk of the Colne and Lee River catchments
• The great and inferior oolite of the Cotswolds District
• The Permo-Triassic sandstones of Manchester and east Cheshire
• The Lower Greensand of southern England
• The Chalk aquifer of Yorkshire and North Humberside
• The Bridport sands of Dorset and Somerset
• The Devonian aquifer of South Wales and Herefordshire
• The Great Ouse chalk aquifer, East Anglia
• The Corallian of Oxfordshire and Wiltshire
• The Palaeogene of the Wessex Basin
• The granites of south-west England
• The Ordovician and Silurian meta-sedimentary aquifers of central and south-west Wales
• The Millstone Grit of Northern England
• The Permo-Triassic sandstones of Liverpool and Rufford
• The Permo-Triassic sandstone aquifer of Shropshire
• The Chalk and Crag of north Norfolk and the Waveney catchment
• The Carboniferous limestone of Northern England
• The Lincolnshire limestone

Synthesis: The natural (baseline) quality of groundwater in England and Wales Additional BGS reports 2006 – 2015.

• The Carboniferous Limestone aquifer of the Derbyshire Dome
• The Chalk aquifer of Hampshire
• The Magnesian Limestone of County Durham and North Yorkshire
• The Palaeogene of the Thames Basin
• The Sherwood Sandstone of Devon and Somerset
• The Corallian of the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire

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