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{{Short description|River in Berkshire, England}}
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[[File:The Emm Brook - geograph.org.uk - 855753.jpg|thumb|The Emm Brook view south of Toutley Bridge, Forest Road]]
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The '''Emm Brook''', sometimes known as the '''Embrook'''{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} or '''Emmbrook''', is a small river in the [[England|English]] county of [[Berkshire]]. It is a tributary of the [[River Loddon]] which it meets at the village of [[Hurst, Berkshire|Hurst]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foteb.org.uk/The%20Brook.html |title=Friends of the Emm Brook |publisher=foteb.org.uk |accessdate=2016-04-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307121249/http://www.foteb.org.uk/The%20Brook.html |archivedate=2016-03-07 }}</ref>

The [[Wokingham]] suburb of [[Emmbrook, Berkshire|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foteb.org.uk/The%20Brook.html |title=Friends of the Emm Brook |publisher=foteb.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-05-01}}</ref>
It flows along the eastern boundary of [[The Emmbrook School]].

On 20 July 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 [[invertebrate]]s, [[angiosperm]]s and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated good or fail.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/help/glossary |website=Catchment Data Explorer |title=Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status) |publisher=Environment Agency |date=17 February 2016}} [[File:UKOpenGovernmentLicence.svg|30px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under an [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  Open Government Licence v3.0]. © Crown copyright.</ref>

The water quality of the Emm Brook was as follows in 2019:
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! Section !! Ecological<br />Status !! Chemical<br />Status !! Length !! Catchment !! Channel
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| {{waterqual_title |desc=Emm Brook |asset= GB106039023130}} 
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| {{waterqual_fail}} 
| {{convert| 14.566 |km|mi|abbr=on}}
| {{convert| 42.421 |km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
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==References==
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== External links ==
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{{Rivers and watercourses of Berkshire}}

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[[Category:Rivers of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Loddon catchment|1Emm]]


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