This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.

Pissing in your own well?

Posted 19/05/08 by Matt B in the Urban category

Following on from the question What replacements are there for main water? is a story from Thanet (where I live). Local Thanet District Councillor for the Eastcliff ward in Rmasgate, Thanet (Kent, UK) posts on blogspot "Save Thanet's Water where it quickly emerges that not only is the airport right on top of the area's main drinking water supply but a huge planned building project is due to be placed there too.

This has led to the creation of a blog dedicated only to this topic. Save Thanet Water Supply says that there is potential for significant pollution of the aquifer to occurr and that the building work will take place on agricultural land (not brown field). The area in question is subject to "Source Protection Zones" of which I know very little but I understand this to mean that any liquid allowed to fall to the ground (or seep through) must be fit for drinking.

What has worried a number of people is that the selfsame council has a financial stake in the building work and full authority to grant itself planning permission where none other would gain it.

"I am not qualified to comment on how the project will affect the amount of water collecting in our aquifers but building on water catchment areas, inevitably reduces the water that reaches the aquifer. In dry years it is not inconceivable that water reserves will run out."
savethanetswatersupply.blogspot.com

Do any readers know of similar events and how they worked out?

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