Notice

Environment Agency: application made to abstract (take) water

Published 26 June 2014

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The consultation period for this application has ended. You can view current licences on the Public Registers.

Applies to England

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An application has been made to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by the Environment Agency. The Environment Agency are required to give notice of this application.

The application is for a licence for an existing transfer of water from Ashford Water at Fordingbridge, Hampshire at National Grid Reference SU 14087 13967, through a fish pass without intervening use, to the Midgham Drain at National Grid Reference SU 14085 13958.

The fish pass is a key feature of the Fordingbridge flood relief channel and is in accordance with the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975.

The maximum quantities the fish pass is designed to take are as follows:

  • 1,091 cubic metres per hour
  • 26,184 cubic metres per day
  • 9,557,160 cubic metres per year
  • at an instantaneous rate not exceeding 303 litres per second

1. How to view the application

A copy of the application, map, plan and any other document submitted with it may be inspected free of charge at the address of the Environment Agency at:

Rivers House
Wlds Road
East Quay
Bridgwater
TA6 4YS

During normal office hours (Monday to Friday, except bank holidays).

Summary details of the application are also available on the public register held at the Environment Agency at:

Guildbourne House
Chatsworth Road
Worthing
BN11 1LD

2. Your chance to comment

Any person who wishes to make representations about the application must do so in writing, quoting reference number NPS/WR/007322 to the Environment Agency at:

Permitting and Support Centre
Water Resources Team
Quadrant 2
99 Parkway Avenue
Sheffield
S9 4WF

Or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk

No later than 24 July 2014.

After expiry of the period for representations, the Environment Agency will be entitled to the grant of a licence which authorises the proposal which shall deemed to be granted, unless the Secretary of State, either in consequence of any representations made with respect to the proposal or otherwise, directs or requires an application to be made to him.

For further advice about making a representation, a leaflet ‘Making your views count’ is available free of charge on request from local Environment Agency offices. Any general enquiries about this notice can be made by telephoning 03708 506 506.

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