About the guidance and planning for drainage and wastewater management

Publication Year

2025

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides information on the guidance for preparing publishing and maintaining drainage and wastewater management plans (DWMPs) by sewerage undertakers in England and Wales. Covers: legal requirements; available capacity; current and future demand; current and future resilience; measures to take or continue; using nature-based solutions; relevant environmental risks and how to mitigate; other matters to consider in the plan; follow the guiding principles; and alignment with flood risk management planning.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidelines-for-statutory-drainage-and-wastewater-management-plans-dwmps/about-the-guidance-and-planning-for-drainage-and-wastewater-management and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 20 May 2025. Published in conjunction with: Environment Agency, the Water Services Regulation Authority , Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales.

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