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 2019:

Section	Ecological Status	Chemical Status	Overall Status	Length	Catchment	Channel
Emm Brook[4]	Moderate	Fail	Moderate	14.566 km (9.051 mi)	42.421 km² (16.379 sq mi)

References

"Friends of the Emm Brook". foteb.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
"Friends of the Emm Brook". foteb.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
"Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. 17 February 2016.
"Emm Brook". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency.

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[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.