Part 5: Water Section 82: Monitoring quality of water potentially affected by discharges New Section 141DB Monitoring quality of water potentially affected by discharges from storm overflows and sewage disposal works
Section 82 inserts new section 141DB into Chapter 4 of Part 4 of the Water Industry Act 1991 after new section 141DA.
	New section 141DB establishes the legal requirement for sewerage undertakers wholly or mainly in England to monitor the quality of water affected by storm overflows and sewage treatment works.
	Subsection (1) requires and sewerage undertaker to continuously monitor the quality of water upstream and downstream of discharges from storm overflows and sewage disposal works.
	Subsection (2) defines the assets for which monitoring is required and that the monitoring is required where the discharge is into a water course.
	Subsection (3) sets out the information which the monitoring exercise must collect, including for example levels of dissolved oxygen.
	Subsection (4) refers to enforcement powers at section 18 of the Water Industry Act 1991.
	Subsection (5) allows the Minister to make regulations that set out (a) requirements for the monitoring such as the type of monitor to be used; (b) exemptions to the assets to be monitored; (c) how sewerage undertakers should publish the monitoring information collected.
	Subsection (6) requires the Minister to consult on the draft regulations with such persons as the Minister considers appropriate.
	Subsection (7) sets out that regulations made under new section 141DB are made by statutory instrument under the draft affirmative resolution procedure.
	Section 82 subsection (2) makes consequential amendments to section 213 of the Water Industry Act 1991 to include the new regulation making powers of new sections 141DA and 141DB.