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<p>The Environment Agency monitors the water quality, ecology (plants, invertebrates
and fish), rainfall, river flows and groundwater levels of the River Gipping and its
catchment. The Environment Agency delivered a fish survey report in 2019 for the River
Gipping which indicated that fish populations in the river are stable, with an average
of 10 species being recorded at each of the five survey sites. A further survey was
completed this year and the results are still being analysed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The
river is currently at Moderate Ecological Potential, with a target to achieve Good
Ecological Potential by 2027.</p>
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