Section 94A: Drainage and sewerage management plans: preparation and review, Water Industry Act 1991

Each sewerage undertaker must prepare, publish and maintain a drainage and sewerage management plan.

A drainage and sewerage management plan is a plan for how the sewerage undertaker will manage and develop its drainage system and sewerage system so as to be able, and continue to be able, to meet its obligations under this Part.

A drainage and sewerage management plan must address in particular—

the capacity of the undertaker's drainage system and sewerage system,

an assessment of the current and future demands on the undertaker's drainage system and sewerage system,

the resilience of the undertaker's drainage system and sewerage system,

the measures the undertaker intends to take or continue for the purpose in subsection (2),

the likely sequence and timing for implementing those measures,

the use that is to be made of nature-based solutions, technologies and facilities within the undertaker's drainage system and sewerage system,

relevant environmental risks and how those risks are to be mitigated, and

any other matters specified by the Minister in directions.

Section 94C contains provision about the preparation and publication of a drainage and sewerage management plan (including a revised plan).

Before each anniversary of the date when its plan (or revised plan) was last published, the sewerage undertaker must—

review its plan, and

send a statement of the conclusions of its review to the Minister.

The sewerage undertaker must prepare and publish a revised plan in each of the following cases—

following conclusion of its annual review, if the review indicated a material change of circumstances;

if directed to do so by the Minister;

in any event, not later than the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the date when the plan (or the revised plan) was last published.

The Minister may give directions specifying—

the form which a drainage and sewerage management plan must take;

the planning period to which a drainage and sewerage management plan must relate.

The duties of a sewerage undertaker under this section are enforceable by the Minister under section 18.

In this section references—

to a drainage system of a sewerage undertaker, are to any drainage system (within the meaning of section 114A) maintained or operated by the sewerage undertaker which is not part of its sewerage system;

to the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker, have the same meaning as in Chapter 1A of Part 2 (see section 17BA(7)).

In this section "the Minister" means—

the Secretary of State, in relation to sewerage undertakers whose areas are wholly or mainly in England, and

the Welsh Ministers, in relation to sewerage undertakers whose areas are wholly or mainly in Wales.

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