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UK Hydro Ltd
Closing date for comments: 20 March 2013. A licence to obstruct or impede the flow of water at the River Swale, Topcliffe, Yorkshire located at NGR 439640,476340.
Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the water act 2003)
Notice of application for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of an inland water by means of impounding works.
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006 that an application has been made to the Environment Agency by Mann Power Consultancy Limited on behalf of
UK Hydro Limited
for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of water at the River Swale, Topcliffe, Yorkshire located at NGR 439640,476340.
The object of impounding water by means of the works is to construct a hydropower scheme for the generation of electricity via two twin Archimedes Screw Turbines.
The impounding structure will consist of two twin Archimedes Screw Turbines, control room and associated housing constructed within the River Swale, incorporating two sluice gates, a coarse screen with 150 millimetres bar spacing, a fish pass, eel pass and an intake chamber.
The water will be used for generation of hydro-electric power. All water abstracted will be returned from the turbine house to the River Swale at National Grid Reference SE 39658 76319.
The maximum instantaneous turbine flow will be 19,260 l/s.
A copy of the application, map, plan and any other document submitted with it may be inspected free of charge at the address of the Environment Agency at 8 City Walk, Leeds, LS11 9AT during normal office hours (Monday-Friday, except bank holidays).
Summary details of the application are also available from the Public Register held at the above address and may also be inspected free of charge during normal office hours.
Current applications can be found at
Environment Agency - Applications for full licences to abstract or impound water
UK Hydro Ltd
Closing date for comments: 20 March 2013. A licence to obstruct or impede the flow of water at the River Swale, Topcliffe, Yorkshire located at NGR 439640,476340.
Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the water act 2003)
Notice of application for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of an inland water by means of impounding works.
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006 that an application has been made to the Environment Agency by Mann Power Consultancy Limited on behalf of
UK Hydro Limited
for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of water at the River Swale, Topcliffe, Yorkshire located at NGR 439640,476340.
The object of impounding water by means of the works is to construct a hydropower scheme for the generation of electricity via two twin Archimedes Screw Turbines.
The impounding structure will consist of two twin Archimedes Screw Turbines, control room and associated housing constructed within the River Swale, incorporating two sluice gates, a coarse screen with 150 millimetres bar spacing, a fish pass, eel pass and an intake chamber.
The water will be used for generation of hydro-electric power. All water abstracted will be returned from the turbine house to the River Swale at National Grid Reference SE 39658 76319.
The maximum instantaneous turbine flow will be 19,260 l/s.
A copy of the application, map, plan and any other document submitted with it may be inspected free of charge at the address of the Environment Agency at 8 City Walk, Leeds, LS11 9AT during normal office hours (Monday-Friday, except bank holidays).
Summary details of the application are also available from the Public Register held at the above address and may also be inspected free of charge during normal office hours.
Current applications can be found at
Environment Agency - Applications for full licences to abstract or impound water