East Kent Chalk and Tertiaries Operational Catchment
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There are 3 water bodies in this operational catchment.
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The East Kent Tertiaries, a Drinking Water Protected Area, comprises deposits of the Harwich Formation, Lambeth Group and Thanet Beds Formation, all classified as secondary aquifers. It is surrounded by impermeable clay to the west, the East Kent Chalk Stour to the south and the Isle of Thanet chalk to the northeast. Abstractions tend to take groundwater from the underlying Chalk aquifer rather than the Tertiaries, and so this groundwater body generally discharges into the Little and Great Stour that run toward Minster Marshes and the North Stream and River Wantsum that flow north across Chislet Marshes.
