This report for the 2025 Sustainable Rivers Audit, provides a review of changes to the groundwater system that has the potential to impact groundwater dependency values with recommendations intended to support SRA design. It is not a comprehensive literature review of groundwater-related issues in the Basin.
The report includes:
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a threat-pathway-receptor framework and narrative informed by the literature (Section 2)
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advice on whether the values set out in section 1.3 have been maintained (Section 3)
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Recommendations on SRA design (section 4).