
1 
This Order—
(a) may be cited as the Environment Agency (Upper Black Moss and Lower Black Moss Reservoirs) Drought Order 2022; and
(b) comes into force on 18th October 2022 and ceases to have effect on 17th April 2023.
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In this Order—
 “Black Moss Reservoir” means the Upper Black Moss Reservoir and the Lower Black Moss Reservoir;
 “the Company” means United Utilities Water Limited;
 “the Licence” means the abstraction licence numbered 2671322033 issued by the Agency on 19th March 2014, which authorises the Company to abstract water from Black Moss Reservoir in Lancashire, to the extent and manner, and subject to the terms and conditions, set out in the Schedule of Conditions to that Licence.
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While this Order is in force, condition 9.1 of the Schedule of Conditions to the Licence is to be read as if for “2,682” there were substituted “1,341”.
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(1) While this Order is in force, the Company must—
(a) use a meter that is capable of continuous measurement of the compensation flow from Black Moss Reservoir to Black Moss Water at Ordnance Survey National Grid Reference SD 82356 40997;
(b) record readings of the compensation flow every 48 hours, or at such other intervals as may be approved by the Agency in writing.
(2) The Company must—
(a) within 10 working days of the day this Order comes into force, submit to the Agency an environmental monitoring and remediation plan, in such format as is required by the Agency;
(b) for the remainder of the period during which this Order is in force, follow the plan, as amended from time to time.
(3) The Agency may—
(a) at any time, require such changes to be made to the plan as it deems appropriate;
(b) keep the plan under review to ensure it remains appropriate.
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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.
Trudy Harrison
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
17th October 2022