The Environment Agency (Holme Styes Reservoir) Drought Order 2022

• Citation: S.I. 2022/902
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and expiry

This Order—

(a) may be cited as the Environment Agency (Holme Styes Reservoir) Drought Order 2022; and

(b) comes into force on 15th August 2022 and ceases to have effect on 14th February 2023.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“ the Company ” means Yorkshire Water Services Limited;

“ the Licence ” means the impoundment licence numbered NE/027/0010/010 issued by the Environment Agency on 14th April 2020, authorising the Company to obstruct or impede the flow of the inland water known as the River Ribble at Holme Styes Reservoir, West Yorkshire, to the extent and manner, and subject to the terms and conditions, set out in the Schedule of Conditions to the Licence .

Section 3 Modification of the minimum rate of compensation water discharged from the Holme Styes Reservoir into the River Ribble

While this Order is in force—

(a) conditions 4.1 and 4.2(ii) of the Schedule of Conditions to the Licence are to be read as if for the words “1.98 megalitres”, there were substituted the words “0.99 megalitres” ; and

(b) condition 4.2(i) of the Schedule of Conditions to the Licence is to be read as if for the words “4 megalitres” there were substituted the words “0.99 megalitres” .

Section 4 Supplemental provision

For the purposes of regulation 19(3)(d) of the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015 nothing in this Order is to be taken as authorising any event causing environmental damage.