The Dogger Bank Teesside A and B Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015

2.  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—

(a)

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

(b)

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

(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—

(a)

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

(b)

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

(c)

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

(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.