Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1354

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Wessex Water Authority (Blashford Lakes Discharge) Order 1987

Made

22nd July 1987

Coming into force

28th July 1987

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of the Water Resources Act 1971(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-

Citation and commencement

1.-(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.

Interpretation

2. 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.

Authority to discharge water

3.-(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.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J.A.L. Gunn

An Under Secretary in the

Department of the Environment