Amendment of regulation 10
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5.—(1) Regulation 10 (temporary storage of solid manure) is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (2), substitute—
“(2) No field heap may be located—
(a)within 10 metres of any body of surface water;
(b)within 50 metres of any well, borehole or similar work sunk into underground strata for the purpose of providing a water supply;
(c)on any area of land that—
(i)slopes down toward a body of surface water; and
(ii)has a slope of 12 degrees or more;
(d)in any area identified on the risk assessment map prepared under regulation 5(4) as being of high risk to the water environment; or
(e)in any other location where there is a significant risk of nitrogen from the field heap entering a body of surface water.”.