Water supply asset discharges: consents, permits and risk assessments
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When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When you need consent or a permit
- Consent
- Permits
- Before you apply for consent or a permit
- How to assess the risks
- Increase in downstream flow
- Discharge of sediment
- Discharge of polluted sediment
- Discharge of poor quality water
- Impact on fish
- Apply for consent
- Apply for a permit
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Water supply asset discharges: consents, permits and risk assessments’ (updated 23 June 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026