The Reduction and Prevention of Agricultural Diffuse Pollution (England) Regulations 2018

Storing organic manure

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9.—(1) A land manager must ensure that organic manure is not stored on agricultural land—

(a)within 10 metres of inland freshwaters or coastal waters, or

(b)within 50 metres of a spring, well or borehole.

(2) For agricultural land to which paragraph (1) does not apply, the land manager must ensure that any factors which mean there would be a significant risk of agricultural diffuse pollution are taken into account when deciding where to store organic manure.

(3) In paragraph (2), the factors include those in regulation 4(2).