Under the Reservoir Act 1975

All owners of this type of Reservoir have to have a Break Plan which shows what actions will be taken in the case of a sudden catastrophic failure (includes sadly how many people could die hence these Plans are not in the public domain) as well as a Plan for what you would do to reduce the capacity by 50% (from full) in a set amount of days. You then have to put the infrastructure in place to ensure (to the Governments Reservoir Inspectors and Environment Agency - because you're returning a huge amount of water back suddenly to the environment- satisfaction) the Plan can be met. These structures and the monitoring equipment (piezometers etc) are surveyed and inspected annually under the Act.

Posted By: Old Splat on August 3rd 2019 at 09:35:00

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This Whaley Bridge stuff is pretty scary. (General Chat) - norway, Aug 3, 09:14:31
- Under the Reservoir Act 1975 (General Chat) - Old Splat, Aug 3, 09:35:00
  - As an aside - I used to get a copy of the event plan for a localish airshow (General Chat) - norway, Aug 3, 09:46:48
- It's ok Boris turned up there. He'll fix the dam single handed. (n/m) (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, Aug 3, 09:30:42
  - he turns up and someone takes the piss (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 3, 09:39:57
  - He said it looked 'dodgy', a word he's familiar with. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Aug 3, 09:32:31
    - Dodgy and stable he said (General Chat) - Azteca, Aug 3, 09:40:08
- Scary stuff, not sure those sand bags will do much. (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Aug 3, 09:24:55

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