South and West Somerset abstraction licensing strategy
The Environment Agency's approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the South and West Somerset catchment.
Applies to England
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This abstraction licensing strategy is for the South and West Somerset catchment in the south-west England river basin district.
Our approach ensures that we:
- 尘别别迟听river basin management plan聽objectives for water resources activities
- avoid deterioration within the catchment
Our guidance on聽managing water abstraction聽gives the technical explanation, legal and policy requirements behind the strategy.
Please see our guidance if you need to:
Updates to this page
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Updated the abstraction licensing strategy so it contains the latest data and guidance.
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2022 update of the catchment water availability and addition of information from the Brue priority catchment initiative to section 5.
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Updated text in section 2.3.1. regarding groundwater resource availability.
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Updated with the latest information on water resource availability.
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First published.