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River Avon, Aveton Gifford, Marsh Weir - Environment impact assessment to remove existing timber deck
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ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION NOT TO PREPARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT
Regulation 5 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Land Drainage
Improvement Works (Amended) Regulations
1999 SI 1999/1783
The Environment Agency gives notice that it proposes to carry out improvement works to the flood defences
on the River Avon in Aveton Gifford, located Marsh Weir
(NGR: SX 70059 47246).
The proposed improvement works will involve the following: removal of an existing deteriorating timber deck that served as a fish trap (4 m long x 1.4 m wide x 0.2 m deep), keeping the upstream stop-log arrangement to regulate flow to suit the adjacent fish pass, and perform localised repairs to the fish-pass.
The Environment Agency considers that the improvement works are not likely to have significant effects on the environment and does not intend to prepare an environmental statement in respect of them.
With regard to the selection criteria in Schedule 2, the works are limited
in scale and comprise the removal of a redundant fish trap structure and installation of replacement stoplogs within the existing structure.
The works will be undertaken within the footprint of an existing Environment Agency asset and are not considered likely to result in significant adverse
effects on the environment by virtue of their nature, size or location. This is further to confirmation from an appropriate Fisheries Officer to state that environmental impacts will be negligible in scale.
Measures to avoid and reduce environmental effects include controlled dismantling of the redundant fish trap, pollution prevention measures,
protection of riverbank habitats, monitoring of flood conditions, and reinstatement of the site following completion of the works.
A method statement is available to view further details of work. Additional information relating to the proposed works and supporting environmental assessments may be obtained from the Environment Agency and viewed by appointment at Environment Agency, Sir John Moore House, Victoria
Square, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1EB.
Any person wishing to make representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the proposed improvement works should do so, in writing, to the address specified below, within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice.
Richard Rider, Sir John Moore House, Victoria Square, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 1EB
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