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Iken - Water Abstraction Licence Application for Nature Conservation
What is happening?
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Water Resources Act 1991
(as amended by the Water Act 2003)
Notice of application for a full licence
to abstract (take) water
Suffolk Wildlife Trust has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence.
The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application, in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006.
The application is for a full licence to abstract water from an unnamed Internal Drainage Board drain at Borrow Dyke at Stanny Marshes, Iken at National Grid Reference TM 43281 56187.
The application is to abstract water as follows:
• 3.6 cubic metres an hour
• 21.6 cubic metres a day
• 3,240 cubic metres a year
• between 1 March and 31 July inclusive in each year.
The water will be used for Nature Conservation.
Please contact us via email or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.
Send any representation about this application in writing, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/WR/047665 to the Environment Agency at the Permitting and Support Centre, Water Resources Team, Quadrant 2, 99 Parkway Avenue, Sheffield S9 4WF or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk by 30th October 2026.
For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.
Open to feedback
From
2-Oct-2026
To
30-Oct-2026
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