QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.03 Hanson Limited Barton Quarry Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire Planning Application for a Western Extension to Existing Consented Mineral Extraction Hydrological & Hydrogeological Impact Assessment 28th November 2017 Report Prepared For: Hanson Limited Ashby Road East Shepshed, Nr. Loughborough Leicestershire LE12 9BU Tel: (0044) 150 950 1201 Fax: Email: [email protected] Technology Centre, Wolverhampton Science Park, Glashier Diver, Wolverhampton West Midlands, WV10 9RU. Tel: 01902 824111, Fax: 01902 824112 Consultant Hydrogeologists Limited email: [email protected], web: http://www.bclhydro.co.uk Registered Office: 33, Wolverhampton Road, Cannock, West Midands, WV11 1AP Registered in England & Wales. Company Registration Number: 4043373 This Page Intentionally Left Blank QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.03 Hanson Limited Barton Quarry Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire Planning Application for a Western Extension to Existing Consented Mineral Extraction Hydrological & Hydrogeological Impact Assessment 28th November 2017 Technology Centre, Wolverhampton Science Park, Glashier Diver, Wolverhampton West Midlands, WV10 9RU. Tel: 01902 824111, Fax: 01902 824112 Consultant Hydrogeologists Limited email: [email protected], web: http://www.bclhydro.co.uk Registered Office: 33, Wolverhampton Road, Cannock, West Midands, WV11 1AP Registered in England & Wales. Company Registration Number: 4043373 This Page Intentionally Left Blank Hanson Limited, Barton Quarry, Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire Planning Application for a Western Extension to Existing Consented Mineral Extraction Hydrological & Hydrogeological Impact Assessment Document History Date Version BCL Ref. Comments Issued to No. 17/11/17 01 QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.01 Initial Draft for Client & Agent review. First Publication Draft. (i) Incorporation of client commentary on Initial Draft; Steve Lamb, (ii) Addition of Executive Summary; Quarryplan Ltd; 27/11/17 02 QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.02 (iii) Addition of LIDAR open water level data for R.Trent & Restoration Lakes (figure 19); Brian Shaw, & (iv) Addition of commentary regarding need for licence variation for local abstraction; Marcus Dorey, (v) Addition of Table 13; “Summary Impact & Mitigation Schedule”, and; both Hanson (vi) Addition of FRA (appendix 10). Ltd. Addition of deregulated PWS data supplied by Lichfield District Council (27/11/17) at 28/11/17 03 QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.03 Table 1 & Figure 6. Contents Page Number EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................1 1.1 Background...........................................................................................................1 1.2 Competence of Persons Undertaking Assessment...............................................1 1.3 Technical Difficulties.............................................................................................1 1.4 Methodology.........................................................................................................1 1.5 Scope.....................................................................................................................2 1.5.1 Minerals Local Plan.............................................................................................2 1.5.2 Pre Application Advice........................................................................................3 1.5.3 Site Authorisations..............................................................................................3 Planning Permission ES.4079/16......................................................................................3 Abstraction Licence No. 3/28/24/103/G.........................................................................4 Abstraction Licence No. 3/28/24/106/G.........................................................................4 Discharge Consent No. T/24/35549/T.............................................................................4 Environmental Permit No. EPR/BP3827XZ......................................................................4 1.6 Data Sources..........................................................................................................5 1.7 Definition of Assessment Baseline........................................................................5 2 BASELINE CONDITIONS..........................................................................7 2.1 Location.................................................................................................................7 2.2 Site Composition & Land Use................................................................................7 2.3 Topography...........................................................................................................8 2.4 Hydrological & Hydrogeological Administrative Units..........................................9 2.4.1 Water Framework Directive River Basin District................................................9 2.4.2 WFD Administrative Catchment.........................................................................9 2.4.3 Flood Risk Zonation...........................................................................................10 QPL.HAN.BuN.H&HIA17.03 28th November 2017 Hanson Limited, Barton Quarry, Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire Planning Application for a Western Extension to Existing Consented Mineral Extraction Hydrological & Hydrogeological Impact Assessment Fluvial Flooding...............................................................................................................10 Fluvial Flood Defences....................................................................................................12 Surface Water Flooding..................................................................................................12 2.4.4 Aquifer Classification.........................................................................................12 2.4.5 Groundwater Vulnerability Zonation................................................................13 2.4.6 Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy................................................13 Background......................................................................................................................13 Water Resource Availability Status................................................................................14 2.5 Protected Water Rights & Authorisations...........................................................15 2.5.1 Source Protection Zones...................................................................................15 2.5.2 Abstractions......................................................................................................15 Exempt Activities.............................................................................................................15 Deregulated.....................................................................................................................17 Licensed...........................................................................................................................17 2.5.3 Consented Discharges.......................................................................................19 2.6 Designated Sites of Ecological Importance.........................................................21 2.6.1 Statutorily Protected.........................................................................................21 2.6.2 Non-Statutorily Protected.................................................................................22 2.7 Landfill Sites.........................................................................................................24 2.8 Geology...............................................................................................................25 2.8.1 Bedrock..............................................................................................................26 2.8.2 Drift....................................................................................................................27 Overview..........................................................................................................................27 The Economic Mineral....................................................................................................28 2.9 Rainfall.................................................................................................................31 2.9.1 Long Term Averages..........................................................................................31 2.9.2 Effective Rainfall................................................................................................32 2.10 Hydrology............................................................................................................33 2.10.1 Physical Surface Water Catchments.................................................................33 2.10.2 Local Drainage Direction...................................................................................33 2.10.3 Agricultural Under-drainage.............................................................................33 2.10.4 Drainage Ditches...............................................................................................33 2.10.5 Hydrological Characteristics of Soils.................................................................34 2.10.6 Surface Water-Courses.....................................................................................34 River Trent.......................................................................................................................34