Lead: Contamination
Commons · Question 13210 · Tabled 8 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Sir Julian Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the extent of sediment-associated lead contamination in (a) river channels and (b) floodplains downstream of historical lead mines; and if he w
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 28 Nov 2024
In 2008, the Environment Agency (EA) published the report: Assessment of metal mining contaminated river sediments in England and Wales - GOV.UK. The report brought together all available information on metal concentrations in river sediments, riverbanks ...