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Appendix CRF - Part 3 - Northamptonshire County Council

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Radiological Assessment 0820-2<br />

Version 2<br />

expected in other regions and the aquifer, although used for agricultural supply, is not<br />

used for public water supply in this area.<br />

Formation Hydrogeological<br />

classification<br />

Comment<br />

Great Oolite Limestone Aquifer Minor aquifer. Unsaturated<br />

Upper Estuarine Series<br />

(Silty Mudstone)<br />

Aquitard Potentially semi-confines the<br />

underlying Lincolnshire Limestone<br />

aquifer in the local area and to the<br />

south and southeast. Elsewhere may<br />

be absent.<br />

Lincolnshire Limestone Aquifer Major aquifer (EA classification).<br />

Locally has limited thickness.<br />

Dominated by fracture flow.<br />

Recharge through swallow holes<br />

extending through Upper Estuarine<br />

Series. The semi-confining clays of<br />

the Upper Estuarine Series were<br />

removed at quarry site resulting in<br />

water tab1e conditions. Elsewhere to<br />

the east conditions are<br />

confined/artesian.<br />

Grantham Formation Aquitard May be absent.<br />

Northampton Sand Aquifer Minor aquifer. It is semi-confined by<br />

the silts/clays of the Lower Estuarine<br />

Series. Where this is absent, it is in<br />

hydraulic continuity with the Lower<br />

Lincolnshire Limestone Aquifer.<br />

Upper Lias Aquiclude Basal Aquiclude to the Oolite Series<br />

aquifer/aquitard system.<br />

Table 2.3 Principal hydrogeological units in the region of the ENRMF landfill<br />

site.<br />

Galson Sciences Limited 9 14 July 2009<br />

WS010001/ENRMF/CONSAPP<strong>CRF</strong> 559

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