Reservoirs: owner and operator requirements
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How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Build or modify a reservoir
- Register a reservoir
- What to register
- How to register
- When to appoint a panel engineer
- Construction engineer
- Supervising engineer
- Inspecting engineer
- How to appoint a panel engineer
- Reservoir safety
- Application process for panel engineers in England and Wales
- Apply in Scotland
- Prepare a reservoir flood plan and flood map
- Reservoir flood maps
- Prepare an inspection information pack for your reservoir
- Report an incident
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Reservoirs: owner and operator requirements’ (updated 23 February 2024), 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
- v1.017/09/2026