CM0 7JB, Bradwell Power Generation Company Limited: environmental permit application advertisement
Published 30 April 2020
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Details of the application
The Environment Agency has received a new bespoke application for a water discharge activity (WDA) environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 from Bradwell Power Generation Company Limited.
Application number
EPR/RB3096WZ/A001
Regulated facility type
Treatment system comprising a settlement and attenuation lagoon (incorporating a silt retention sump), oil interceptor and flow attenuation/control structure
Regulated facility address
Bradwell B (BRB) load test site
Adjacent to Weymarks Farm
Bradwell on Sea
Southminster
Essex
CM0 7JB
National grid reference discharge point
TM 01249 08474
Receiving environment
Tributary of Weymark’s Ditch
Effluent type
Treated trade effluent composed of a mixture of abstracted groundwater (generated from the site’s load test pit excavation), direct rainfall inputs and surface water runoff.
Volume
Maximum of 1,296 cubic metres per day (m³/day)
How to view the application
We are following Government advice to manage the risks of Coronavirus to our organisation, to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff and sustain our critical operations. As a result, please email us at psc-waterquality@environment-agency.gov.uk or call us on 03708 506 506 to arrange to see the application documents.
You can also view the application and supporting documents online at: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/bradwell-b-brb-load-test-site-cm0-7jb
How to comment on the application
If you have any comments on the application send these by 15 June 2020.
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
online: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/bradwell-b-brb-load-test-site-cm0-7jb
Or write to:
Environment Agency
National Permitting Service Sheffield
Water Quality Team
Quadrant 2
99 Parkway Avenue
Sheffield
S9 4WF
The Environment Agency will normally put any comments it receives on the public register. This includes your name but not your personal contact details. Please tell us if you do not want your response to be public.
The proposed abstraction of groundwater associated with this new bespoke water discharge activity (WDA) permit application is the subject of a separate application by Bradwell Power Generation Company Limited for a new transfer licence to abstract (take) water under the Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003). The reference for this application is NPS/WR/033410. You can view the application and supporting documents online at: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/bradwell-b-brb-load-test-site-cm0-7jb