Hardwick Brook, Licence Application to abstract water

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003)

Notice of application for a transfer licence to abstract (take) water Smith & Sons (Bletchington) Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence.

The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application (in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006). The application is for a licence to abstract water from Hardwick Brook near Gill Mill Quarry, Witney to transfer it to a new proposed wetland at National Grid Reference (NGR) SP 36562 08134 without intervening use. The application is to abstract water up to the rates as follows:
• 3,000 cubic metres a day • 402,600 cubic metres a year
• For the period all year

The proposal is to divert the normal flow of Hardwick Brook to create throughflow for a wetland to be created on the site of the quarry located adjacent to the brook. Water will be discharged back to Hardwick Brook at NGR's: SP 36746
07914, SP 37443 07407, SP 37772 07376 and SP 38067
07221 downstream.

Please contact us via e-mail or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.

Send any representation about this application by email, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/WR/036280 to the Environment Agency at:
PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk by 20th January 2023.
For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.