{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-control-of-agricultural-pollution-wales-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Risk maps",
  "text": "(1) An occupier of a holding who spreads organic manure on that holding must maintain a map of the holding (“a risk map”) in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) If circumstances change the occupier must update the risk map within three months of the change.\n(3) The risk map must show—\n(a) each field, with its area in hectares,\n(b) all surface waters,\n(c) any boreholes, springs or wells on the holding or within 50 metres of the holding boundary,\n(d) areas with sandy or shallow soils,\n(e) land with an incline greater than 12°,\n(f) land within 10 metres of surface waters,\n(g) land within 50 metres of a borehole, spring or well,\n(h) land drains (other than a sealed impermeable pipe),\n(i) sites suitable for temporary field heaps if this method of storing manure is to be used, and\n(j) land that has a low run-off risk (this is optional for an occupier who does not intend to spread manure on low run-off risk land during the storage period in accordance with regulation 29).\n(4) If an occupier spreads organic manure by using precision spreading equipment up to 6 metres from surface water as permitted by regulation 14(1), the risk map must identify land within 6 metres of surface waters.\n(5) The occupier must keep a copy of the risk map.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 1.4.2021, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/77/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:32.369257+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}