Environment Agency

WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE TO ABSTRACT WATER

Take notice that E W Porter & Son of Grange Farm, Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk IP26 4DH, are applying to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water from the chalk underground strata, at Methwold, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk.
The proposal is to abstract water from two boreholes at National Grid Refs TL 7573 9413 and TL 7571 9408 to fill a storage reservoir all year round and for direct summer spray irrigation between 1 April and 30 September each year at the following aggregated rates of abstraction: 45.5 cubic metres per hour, 1,090.9 cubic metres per day and 40,900 cubic metres per year.
The application is to renew licence serial No 6/33/56/G/204 which is due to expire on 31 December 2004.
A copy of the application and any map, plans or other documents may be inspected, free of charge, at all reasonable hours at Grange Farm, Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk IP26 4DH, between 9 December 2004 and 6 January 2005.
Any person who wishes to make representations about the application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4NE, before the end of the said period, quoting the name of the applicant.
G Beel, on behalf of E W Porter & Son
2 December 2004.