The Lower Trent and Erewash management catchment is one of the largest and most varied river systems in the region.  Stretching from the confluence of the River Dove and River Trent near Derby to Alkborough Flats on the Humber Estuary, it covers around 2,045 km² and includes major rivers such as the Trent, Derwent, Soar, Erewash and Idle. The catchment spans Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, creating a highly interconnected landscape.

The area is made up of numerous waterbodies, ranging from urban waterways to rural tributaries and wetlands. This diverse network supports agriculture, industry, urban water management and important ecological corridors, but also brings a wide range of environmental pressures.

For our Environmental Destination (ED) programme, we are focusing on a specific “area of interest” within the catchment, relevant to water company abstractions. Our focus is those surface water bodies where the public water supply companies actively abstract water or where their groundwater abstraction impacts on flow to surface waterbodies. The primary focus of Severn Trent’s investigation will be the Nottinghamshire South A and Nottingham Urban Operational catchments due to the location of Severn Trent’s abstractions and the connectivity with the Permo-Triassic sandstone aquifers from which public water supply water is abstracted.

Please note the correct WFD management catchment name for this catchment is ‘Trent Lower and Erewash’, we are referring to it as the Lower Trent and Erewash as this is how it is commonly referred to and this is the name used for the catchment by the Environment Agency.