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Behind the scenes: how Environment Agency scientists are testing bathing water quality  

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There are more than 450 designated bathing waters across England. The Environment Agency is responsible for monitoring, improving, and maintaining water quality at all designated bathing waters. Importantly, designation also means that information is provided to the public to help …

River vegetation management in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire - reducing flood risk

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Abigail Ovenden, Asset Management Engagement Advisor, looks at how the Environment Agency reduces flood risk in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire by cutting vegetation. Environment Agency teams (and contractors on our behalf) manage vegetation and weed growth along 2,210 kilometres of Main …

Revitalising the Hamble Brook: A new wetland haven in Buckinghamshire

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The Hamble Brook is a rare type of chalk stream

New life has been breathed into Buckinghamshire’s Hamble Brook by a substantial wetland site spanning 2,500 square metres. This work, led by the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, further extends the largest scheme of its kind involving the Environment Agency, and …

Ensuring nuclear reactor designs meet high standards of environmental protection

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The Environment Agency’s New Reactors Assessment Team is carrying out assessments of three small modular reactor nuclear power station designs. Andrew Pynn, Senior Advisor for the project, summarises what we have been doing on two of the projects and why. …