Emm Brook

The Emm Brook, sometimes known as the Embrook or Emmbrook, is a small river in the English county of Berkshire. It is a tributary of the River Loddon which it meets at the village of Hurst.[1]

The Emm Brook view south of Toutley Bridge, Forest Road
Emm Brook
 River Loddon
 Sandford Lane
 Dinton Pastures
  A329(M) 
  B3030  Robin Hood Lane
  M4 
 Old Forest Road Bridge
Toutley Road
 Emmbrook Road
  A321  Twyford Road
Waterloo–Reading line
  A329  Reading Road
 Woosehill Spine Road
 Meadow Road
  B3349  Barkham Road
 Ashville Way
 North Downs Line
 Oakey Drive
  A321  Finchampstead Road
Heathlands Road
 Luckley Road
 Easthampstead Road
 Redlake Lane ford
 North Downs Line
 Old Wokingham Road
 Queens Mere
  B3430  Nine Mile Ride
 Kings Mere

The Wokingham suburb of Emmbrook is named after the river.

The Emm Brook passes through Dinton Pastures Country Park, where the original route has been diverted to enable gravel extraction in the 1970s.[2] It flows along the eastern boundary of The Emmbrook School.

On July 20, 2007. the river suffered a flash flood that breached banks at Emmbrook School, among others. It destroyed the ground floor rooms and computer suites causing them to be totally rebuilt over the summer holiday.


Water quality

The Environment Agency measure water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates, angiosperms and fish, and chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations. Chemical status is rated good or fail.[3]

The water quality of the Emm Brook was as follows in 2016:

SectionEcological
Status		Chemical
Status		Overall
Status		LengthCatchmentChannel
Emm Brook[4] style="background: #ffd784; text-align: center;" | Poor style="background: #7af58a; text-align: center;" | Good style="background: #ffd784; text-align: center;" | Poor 14.566 km (9.051 mi) 42.421 km2 (16.379 sq mi)
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References
  1. "Friends of the Emm Brook". foteb.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
  2. "Friends of the Emm Brook". foteb.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  3. "Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. 17 February 2016.
  4. "Emm Brook". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency.

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