Notice

Longcliffe Quarries Limited: application made to abstract water

Published 18 July 2024

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Details of the application

Longcliffe Quarries Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence.

The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006.

The application is to vary licence serial number MD/028/0040/010 to abstract water from underground strata comprising of Carboniferous Limestone at Brassington Moor Quarry, Aldwark, Matlock for the purpose of transferring the water without intervening use to a settlement lagoon or Barnfield Quarry within the site boundary.

The variation applied for is to increase the size of the area of abstraction and to increase the abstraction quantities to the following:

  • 360 cubic metres an hour (currently 220 cubic metres)
  • 8,640 cubic metres a day (currently 4,320 cubic metres)
  • 3,153,600 cubic metres a year (currently 1,188,000 cubic metres)

Abstraction will take place all year for the purpose of dewatering.  All abstracted water is returned to the same underground strata.

How to view the application

Please contact us via e-mail or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.

How to comment on the application

Send any representations about this application by email, quoting the name of the applicant and Reference Number NPS/WR/042476 to the Environment Agency, at: PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk

By 15 August 2024.

For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.

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