House of Lords amendments to the Environment Bill 2021-2220 Oct 2021 12:05
18 October 2021
Amendment 62 would require sewerage undertakers in England to
continuously monitor water quality upstream and downstream of storm
overflows. Water quality indicators that would need to be monitored include
“levels of dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH values, turbidity, levels of
ammonia, and anything else specified in regulations made by the Secretary
of State.”47 Under this amendment, the Secretary of State must also make
provisions to specify how and where monitoring must be carried out or to
make exceptions to this duty, based on the frequency of discharge or level
risked posed by a storm overflow