The Wessex Water Authority (Blashford Lakes Discharge) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1354
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Wessex Water Authority (Blashford Lakes Discharge) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 28th July 1987.(2)The Wessex Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1982 and this Order may be cited together as the Wessex Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1987.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“the Authority” means the Wessex Water Authority;

“the Blashford Lakes” means the intake pound and the lakes known as Blashford or Spinnaker Lake, Snails or Runnymede Lake, Ivy Lake and Ellingham Lake all formed from flooded gravel pits, in the Parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley, in the District of New Forest, in the County of Hampshire.

Section 3 Authority to discharge water

(1) The Authority may, for the purpose of replenishing the water stored in the Blashford Lakes, discharge water taken from the River Avon at Ibsley into the Blashford Lakes at a rate of discharge not exceeding 50 megalitres in any period of twenty-four hours.

(2) The Authority may discharge water from any lake to any other lake within the Blashford Lakes.