Notice

Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited: application made to abstract water

Published 5 April 2024

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Applies to England

Details of the application

Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited has applied to the Environment Agency to vary a licence.

The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006.

The application is to vary licence serial number AN/031/0014/042 to abstract water from underground strata comprising sands and gravels at Baston Quarry, Langtoft, Lincolnshire for the prupose of transferring it without intervening use to a discharge point at either National Grid Reference (NGR) TF 14480 14070, NGR TF 13890 13180, or a silt lagoon at NGR TF 13887 13494.

The applicant seeks to vary the licenced abstraction area (contained within the boundary formed by straight lines running between the following National Grid References: TF 13159 15588, TF 15003 14789, TF 12857 12305, TF 15213 12181).

Abstraction volumes would remain unchanged:

  • 350 cubic metres an hour

  • 8,388 cubic metres a day

  • 2,517,771 cubic metres a year

  • At an instantaneous rate not exceeding 97.3 litres per second

  • Abstraction would take place all year.

How to view the application

Please contact us via e-mail or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.

How to comment on the application

Send any representation about this application by email, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/WR/040368 to the Environment Agency by email to: PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk

By 03 May 2024.

For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.