Tuesday 16 September 2008

Monkton Nature reserve and Thanet Earth

We went to Monkton nature reserve again on Sunday this time I remembered to take the camera click here for the pictures

There is much concern there about Thanet Earth, both because it is turning out much bigger and more intrusive than people expected and because the water extraction that it will carry out is expected to dry out the nature reserve.

This morning I woke up thinking about the it and it occurred to me that no where does it say where the nitrate rich water it has used drains to, could it be into the aquifer?

Truth is I just don’t know, maybe all the water is lost in evaporation, I will endeavour to find out about that and the drainage relating to the loading bays and power station.
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 3:44 pm

    Sounds like an ideal site for the new site for traveling folk. or should they use the china gate site, seems our government want them more than anyone else.

    Perhaps thanet should be used as a 'centre' for the traveling community?

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  2. Michael ChildSeptember 16, 2008 4:27 pm

    It’s an abandoned chalk quarry Peter.

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  3. Michael ChildSeptember 17, 2008 10:20 am

    Not sure Peter chalk quarries go back a long time in this area, the oldest being caves, the chalk was turned to lime in kilns and used for fertiliser and building. The earliest written record of the chalk caves in this area, that I can find, is in Leland’s Itinerary, he visited East Kent in the early 1500s. ‘There is a Cave wher Men have sowt and digged for Treasure. I saw yt by Candel withyn and there were Conys. Yt was so straite that I had no mynd to crepe far yn.’

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  4. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 6:09 pm

    A fantastic place to visit, it is an interesting comment about the possibility of Thanet Earth taking the water and maybe adding nitrates. After four years, no one has further commented, so I will find out if there is anything to this.

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    1. Michael ChildOctober 15, 2012 6:52 pm

      Thanet Earth failed to gain either a water abstraction licence or a drainage licence, my understanding is that they buy their water from Southern Water and all of their liquid waste goes into the public sewer, so there is no effect on the nature reserve.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 11, 2012 4:06 pm

    Sorry for the delay in replying, Michael. Thank you for the update.

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