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What steps he is taking to ensure that the installation of turbines by electricity generating companies does not cause damage to migratory fisheries on (a) the River Leven and (b) other rivers in England and Wales.
What steps he is taking to ensure that the installation of turbines by electricity generating companies does not cause damage to migratory fisheries on (a) the River Leven and (b) other rivers in England and Wales.
Asked by
Lord Onslow of Woking
(Conservative)
Answered by
Robert B Jones
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
13 March 1997
Answered on
13 March 1997
Sir Cranley Onslow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he is taking to ensure that the installation of
turbines by electricity generating companies does not cause damage to migratory fisheries on (a) the River Leven and (b) other
rivers in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement. [19676]
Mr. Robert B. Jones: Section 14 of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975--amended by schedule 15 of the Environment Act
1995--requires the owner or occupier of any mill, defined as including any erection for the purpose of developing water power, which
diverts water from any watercourse frequented by salmon or migratory trout to place and maintain, at his own cost, a screen to
prevent access to the intake by those fish. Such a screen is required to be so located and constructed that, so far as reasonably
practicable, those fish are not injured or damaged by it. This obligation applies only where the intake channel was constructed
after 18 July 1923.
There are two abstractions on the River Leven for hydropower generation. Both intakes were constructed before 1923 and so are not
covered by the screen obligation. Neither currently has screens in place, but the Environment Agency is well aware of the issue and
is seeking agreement with the abstractor for the installation of suitable screens.
Subjects
Fisheries; Water power; Rivers; Hydroelectric power; River Leven
Date
13 March 1997
Reference
19676; 292 c284-5W;292 c285W
House
House of Commons