Paragraph 2 I1

In this Part—

• “Agency” means the Environment Agency;

• “construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal; and “construct” and “constructed” must be construed accordingly;

• “drainage work” means any watercourse and includes—

  1. (a)

     any land that provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse;

  2. (b)

     any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring; and

  3. (c)

     any ancillary works constructed as a consequence of works carried out for drainage purposes;

• “fishery” means any watercourse within the Order limits containing fish, fish in such waters and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;

• “plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;

• “specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 16 metres of, a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—

  1. (a)

     affect any drainage work or the volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work;

  2. (b)

     affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any watercourse or other surface waters or ground water;

  3. (c)

     cause obstruction to the free passage of fish or damage to any fishery; or

  4. (d)

     affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources;

• “watercourse” means all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer.