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Drought order issued: Holme Styes Reservoir

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Drought order issued: Holme Styes Reservoir

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Drought order issued: Holme Styes Reservoir

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TAKE NOTICE that due to the threat of a serious deficiency of supplies of water for compensation flows in Holme Styes Reservoir at Hade Edge, Holmfirth (National Grid Reference: SE 13968 05664) caused by an exceptional shortage of rain, the Environment Agency (“the Agency”) applied to the Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for a drought order under Section 73 of the Water Resources Act 1991, which was granted on 11th August 2022 and came into effect on 15th August 2022.

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Published 19 August 2022

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