The Strathclyde Regional Council (Loch Assapol) Water Order 1994

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

The works referred to in this Order and shown on the deposited plan marked “The Strathclyde Regional Council (Loch Assapol) Water Order 1994 Plan of Catchment Area, Location Plan and Plans and Sections of Works Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5” are–

• Work No.1

  A raw water intake consisting of a suction pipe 150mm in diameter situated close to the north bank of Loch Assapol at a point some 190m or thereby southwest of the building designated on the deposited plan as Loch Assapol Farm.

• Work No.2

  An approved gauge to measure the amount of water abstracted by the intake (Work No.1).

• Work No.3

  An inlet pumphouse situated on the north bank of Loch Assapol some 170m or thereby southwest of the building designated on the deposited plan as Loch Assapol Farm.

• Work No.4

  An embankment some 75m in length at a level of 19.71m above Ordnance Datum situated 55m or thereby west of the outlet of Loch Assapol as shown on the deposited plan, a diversion of the Bunessan River over a length of 62.5m or thereby at the embankment and a weir with an overflow sill at a level of 18.9m above Ordnance Datum situated at the embankment.

• Work No.5

  An approved gauge to measure and record the amount of water discharged as compensation water to the Bunessan River from the weir, Work No.4.

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2

The provisions of Schedule 4 to the Act referred to in, and as modified and adapted for the purpose of, this Order are–

Section 2

In the construction of the works the Council may deviate laterall y to any extent not exceeding the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plan marked “The Strathclyde Regional Council (Loch Assapol) Water Order 1994 Plan of Catchment Area, Location Plan and Plans and Sections of Works Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5” and they may also deviate vertically from the levels shown on that plan to any extent:

Provided that–

(a) no weir across a watercourse shall be constructed at a greater height above the general bed level of a watercourse than that shown on the said plan and 100 millimetres in addition thereto; and

(b) except for the purposes of crossing a stream, canal, dyke, watercourse or railway, or of crossing any lands where the consent of all persons interested in those lands has been obtained, no pipe or other conduit or aqueduct shall be raised above the surface of the ground otherwise than in accordance with the said plan.

Section 10(3)

If the Council–

(a) fail to install or maintain in good order any such gauge as is mentioned in the Strathclyde Regional Council (Loch Assapol) Water Order 1994, or refuse to allow any person interested to inspect and examine any such gauge or any records made thereby or kept by them in connection therewith or to take copies of any such records; or

(b) take any water contrary to the provisions of the Strathclyde Regional Council (Loch Assapol) Water Order 1994,

they shall, without prejudice to their civil liability, if any, to a person aggrieved, be liable, in the case of an offence under paragraph (a) of this subsection, on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) of this subsection–

(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and

(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

Section 10(5)

The provisions of this Order shall be deemed to have been accepted by all persons interested as providing full compensation for all water impounded or abstracted by the works.