ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Water Resources Act 1991

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003) Notice of application for a licence to obstructor impede the flow of an inland water using impounding works. Team Van Oord 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 remove a weir which is an obstruction or impediment to the flow of the River Teme at Powick Weir upstream of Old Powick Bridge at National Grid Reference SO 83190 52412.
 The central section of the existing weir will be removed to provide environmental improvement by reinstating free fish passage to enable fish to migrate upstream. It will be undertaken as part of the "Unlocking the Severn' project in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.

You can view the application and documents submitted with it at the Environment Agency:

Riversmeet House, Northway Lane, Newtown Industrial Estate, Tewkesbury GL20 8FD during normal office hours (Monday to Friday, except bank holidays). You can view a summary of the application from the Public Register at the above address during normal office hours. Send any representation about this application in writing, quoting the name of the applicant and Reference Number NPS/WR/026006 to the Environment Agency, at Water Resources Permitting & Support Centre, Quadrant 2, 99 Parkway Avenue, Sheffield, S9 4WF or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk  by 13th October 2017. For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506506.