Buckinghamshire Council Culvert Policy

EA – Environment Agency

LPA –Local Planning Authority

BC - Buckinghamshire Council

LLFA – Lead Local Flood Authority

IDB – Internal Drainage Board

LDA – Land Drainage Act

WFD – Water Framework Directive

Ordinary Watercourse – all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, dykes, sluices, sewers (other than public sewers) and other passages through which water flows that are not designated as main rivers.

Main River – all watercourses shown as such on the statutory main river maps held by the Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Bridge – an open span structure that carries a road, footpath, railway etc. over a watercourse.

Culvert – a covered channel or pipeline of any size, which is used to continue a watercourse or drainage path under an artificial obstruction.