The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 No. 1154

SCHEDULE 25 E+W Flood risk activities and excluded flood risk activities

PART 2 E+W Excluded flood risk activities

SECTION 2 E+W Descriptions and conditions

Purpose-built sediment traps E+W

12.—(1) Clearance of purpose-built sediment traps.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—

(a) only sand and silt is cleared from the trap,

(b) the works do not result in sand or silt being transmitted downstream, and

(c) where the sand and silt from the clearance is spread on the floodplain, it is spread to a depth of no more than 100mm and no closer than 8 metres from the landward side of either bank.