Over 90% of the city’s drinking water comes from the underground aquifer, researchers say. <\/p>\n
Prof Martin Smith, from the university’s school of applied sciences, said: “When polluted water from our roads seeps into the aquifer, it’s not just a scientific problem \u2013 it’s our drinking water, our children’s health, and our local environment at stake. <\/p>\n
“Projects like the Wild Park rainscape make sure the water we rely on every day is safe.”<\/p>\n
The project, which had been planned for six years, involved planting reed beds and wetland plants, trees, and a wildflower meadow to collect rainwater and filter out pollutants, according to Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC).<\/p>\n
Before construction began, the university team monitored runoff from the A27 and found water in the area contained higher levels of contaminants than recommended.<\/p>\n
Lead, a remnant from older fuels, chromium from road markings, and polyaromatic hydrocarbons from tyres and asphalt were all present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 90% of the city’s drinking water comes from the underground aquifer, researchers say. Prof Martin Smith, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-253397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}