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Government to strengthen reservoir safety following Toddbrook reservoir report | |
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2020-03-16 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | Press release Government to strengthen reservoir safety following Toddbrook reservoir reportReservoir owners and operators will be expected to apply a series of safety recommendations following lessons learnt from Toddbrook incident ![]() Reservoir owners will be expected to apply the lessons learned from the Toddbrook reservoir incident after the government today accepted a series of recommendations made in a report by the Government’s reviewer of reservoir safety, Professor David Balmforth. England already has some of the toughest safety reservoir regulations in the world with a strong safety track record, and this report - commissioned last September – looks to build on this by reviewing events that took place in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire last year after the Toddbrook reservoir’s spillway partially collapsed following a severe storm event. Professor Balmforth concluded a combination of poor design and intermittent maintenance led to the partial collapse of the reservoir’s spillway following the heavy rainfall at the end of July last year. The report makes a series of recommendations to further build on our already stringent safety regime which will strengthen the remit of the Environment Agency – the government’s regulator of reservoirs – and aid reservoir owners in ensuring their ongoing maintenance and checks are robust. The government will be accepting all recommendations, which include:
Environment Secretary George Eustice said:
Lead reviewer Professor David Balmforth said:
Environment Agency CEO Sir James Bevan said:
The report also recommends a second part of the review, which will take a wider look at how the Reservoirs Act and regulations are implemented and make any necessary recommendations to further ensure reservoir safety. Defra and the Environment Agency have already begun to implement some of the recommendations - including working with raised all large raised reservoir owners and their supervising engineers to identify if any other reservoirs might have similar design concerns.
Published 16 March 2020
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来源平台 | gov.uk - environment agency |
文献类型 | 新闻 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/229519 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
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