Correspondence

Water industry: letter to water companies on accelerating action on storm overflows

Letter from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to water companies requesting accelerated maintenance work at sewer networks to tackle high spilling storm overflows.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 11 December 2023

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Letter to water companies on accelerating action on storm overflows

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The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Barclay, has requested water companies to improve maintenance programmes to ensure these are not a cause of storm overflow discharges.

He highlights this is a legal requirement that water companies should already be delivering and states his plans to closely follow the implementation of these programmes. The Secretary of State also praises the success of some water companies in identifying interim solutions to reduce storm overflow discharges. He encourages water companies to provide more information on further opportunities to fund and deliver more of these interim solutions.

Published 11 December 2023