Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Written Evidence

Annex 1

Schemes and investigations submitted by EA/English Nature for AMP4 funding under nature conservation drivers, by water company

  The following data were extracted from the EA/EN AMP4 database submitted to Ofwat and Defra on 13 June 2003.

  HD refers to Habitats and Birds Directive sites, LoC refers to the Level of Certainty with which a scheme has been identified.

  A "scheme" is where one asset (sewage discharge or abstraction point) needs improvement. Several schemes may benefit one designated nature conservation site.

Table 1

WATER QUALITY—NUMBERS OF SCHEMES AND DESIGNATED SITES BY WATER COMPANY

		No. of schemes LoC 1-3 SchemesSites		No. of schemes LoC 4-6 SchemesSites		Investigations Schemes Sites		Total Sites
AnglianWater	HD SSSI Total	74 0 74	14 0 14	14 0 14	3 0 3	15 2 17	3 2 5	17 2 19
Dwr Cymru	HD SSSI Total	4 0 4	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1	3 0 3
Northumbrian Water Ltd	HD SSSI Total	0 0 0	0 0 0	4 0 4	2 0 2	3 0 3	2 0 2	2 0 2
Severn Trent Water	HD SSSI Total	17 33 50	3 11 14	1 8 9	1 8 9	1 8 9	1 8 9	4 19 23
Southern Water	HD SSSI Total	13 42 55	7 9 16	40 8 48	18 6 24	8 16 24	4 8 12	20 12 32
South West Water	HD SSSI Total	6 0 6	3 0 3	6 3 9	1 2 3	7 3 10	1 2 3	3 2 5
Thames Water	HD SSSI Total	4 7 11	2 1 3	6 7 13	3 7 10	0 7 7	0 7 7	4 8 12
United Utilities	HD SSSI Total	17 13 30	5 3 8	87 0 87	13 0 13	101 0 101	13 0 13	13 3 16
Wessex Water	HD SSSI Total	18 4 22	2 2 4	0 0 0	0 0 0	1 2 3	1 2 3	3 4 7
Yorkshire Water	HD SSSI Total	7 1 8	1 1 2	1 3 4	1 3 4	1 4 5	1 4 5	2 5 7

Table 2

WATER RESOURCES—NUMBERS OF SITES BY WATER COMPANY

Region	Habitats Directive					SSSI
	LoC 1-3	Loc 4-6	Inv*	Total Sites	LoC 1-3	LoC 4-6	Inv*	Total Sites
Anglian Water	3	13	14	29	0	3	6	9
Bournemouth & W Hants	1	0	2	3	0	0	0	0
Cambridge Water	0	1	2	3	1	2	2	5
Dwr Cymru	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Essex and Suffolk Water	1	4	4	10	0	1	1	2
Mid Kent Water	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
Portsmouth Water	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Severn Trent Water	0	5	1	6	5	0	0	5
South East Water	4	0	1	5	0	1	1	2
South Staffs Water	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	2
South West Water	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Southern Water	5	2	0	7	0	0	1	1
Tendring Hundred Water	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Thames Water	9	0	1	10	1	1	3	5
Three Valleys Water	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0
United Utilities	10	0	8	14	1	0	1	2
Wessex Water	4	0	9	13	1	0	1	2
Yorkshire Water	2	0	2	3	1	0	1	2
Total	41	31	47	94	12	8	18	36

  * Inv = Investigation

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Prepared 18 December 2003