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The Environment Agency has updated the information about riparian ownership and created a leaflet called \u201cYour watercourse: rights and roles\u201d<\/span><\/strong>. This new leaflet ( .pdf –\u00a0 \u00a01Mb – 56 pages) is printable, which may be useful for people wishing to share this information with their communities. The ” Your watercourses….” leaflet can be found here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If there are issues with this link<\/strong><\/span> the leaflet is also available to download from this webpage – Your watercourse: rights and roles | Engage Environment Agency (engagementhq.com)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

THE SMALL PRINT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Within this leaflet, the precise problem associated with the lack of maintenance of urbanised ordinary watercourses is identified on Page 55 as follows:\u00a0 – Permissive Powers: when an organisation has statutory powers to carry out works but these powers are discretionary in nature with no legal duty to exercise them.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In other words – although RBWM (as designated lead local flood authority) is responsible – they have no duty to take any action.\u00a0 This policy also appears to apply to the Environment Agency.\u00a0 I am concerned that although the Floods and Water Management Act 2010 clearly defines responsibility for ordinary watercourses and main rivers – the legislation fails to impose a duty to ensure that the individual elements of land drainage infrastructure are maintained in a condition fit-for-purpose.\u00a0 So we now spend \u00a3billions on new flood defences but ignore the existing decaying and sub-standard infrastructure that exacerbates flooding?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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