What UK Reservoirs Act 1975: Large Raised Reservoirs, Registration, Construction and Inspection Engineers and Supervision requires
The Reservoirs Act 1975 is the reservoir-safety framework for England and Wales, requiring large raised reservoirs to be designed, constructed, supervised and inspected by qualified civil engineers and registered with an enforcement authority, administered by the Environment Agency as the enforcement authority (the Act was amended by the Flood and Water Management Act 2010). Section A1 defines a large raised reservoir: a raised reservoir is large if it is capable of holding 10,000 cubic metres or more of water above the natural level of any part of the surrounding land. Section 1 sets the ambit of the Act and the interpretation provisions. Section 2 requires the enforcement authority to maintain a register of large raised reservoirs and to enforce the Act. Section 6 governs the construction or enlargement of a reservoir, which must be carried out under the supervision of a qualified construction engineer, and section 7 requires the construction engineer to issue certificates including a final certificate before the reservoir is filled. Section 10 requires periodical inspection of every large raised reservoir by an independent inspecting engineer, who may recommend measures to be taken in the interests of safety. Section 12 requires a supervising engineer to keep the reservoir under regular supervision between inspections. Section 22 provides for the criminal liability of undertakers and their employees for contraventions. The Act is the legal regime that keeps large raised reservoirs under continuous qualified engineering oversight to prevent catastrophic failure.
Pillar: Water & Environmental Resources · Authority: UK Parliament / Environment Agency (enforcement authority) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/23/contents
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- Reservoirs Act 1975, section A1 - meaning of large raised reservoir (capable of holding 10,000 cubic metres or more above the natural level of the surrounding land).
- Reservoirs Act 1975, section 1 - ambit of Act and interpretation.
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