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Lincolnshire – Heritage Open Days SATURDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2019 -Open from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Witham Fourth District IDB Lade Bank Pumping Station, New Leake, Boston PE22 8JF. If water [...]

Since rain began falling on Monday 10 June and with heavy rainfall predicted, Witham Fourth pumping station operatives were organised into 12 hour shifts. We have been pumping 24/7 for the last 7 [...]

James stepped down as Chairman to the Witham Fourth District IDB in December 2018, after serving for 16 years. He was previously Vice-Chairman taking over from Bob Richardson and is succeeded by [...]

Project Name: Wrangle Sea Bank Project Details: A £1.95M scheme to raise and reprofile 5.8km of primary sea defence along the Lincolnshire Wash Coastline that also created 10+ Hectares of [...]

If you find rubbish, whether it is bin bags of garden waste, household rubbish or industrial waste dumped on your land, it is the landowner’s responsibility to clear it away. If it has been [...]

Depending on the watercourse maintenance schedule, there is no guarantee that weed growth will be cleared to coincide with irrigation demands.

You can but you need to contact the Environment Agency who issue all licences for abstraction and impoundment. It is an offence to abstract or impound water without a licence.

The primary responsibility for the maintenance of any watercourse rests with the owner of that watercourse. This will USUALLY be the owner of the land adjoining that watercourse. Where the [...]

We have different winter and summer levels in the main drains and these can vary by up to a metre. We keep the levels lower in the winter as typically, there is more rainfall in winter months and [...]

Invasive alien species are defined as “species whose introduction and spread outside their natural ecological range poses a real threat to biodiversity and the economy” (European Commission [...]