Water Management Alliance

1.

Collects contributions from developers where proposals necessitate either immediate or future improvement to the drainage system.

2.

Collects commuted sums from developers for adopting and thereafter maintaining drainage systems.

3.

Charges fees for processing applications to relax the Byelaws and to alter the flow of ordinary watercourses.

4.

Applies for grant monies to reduce the cost of carrying out all capital and environmental improvement works.

5.

Charges landowners for undertaking a range of ditching work.

6.

Charges the full cost of providing a range of services incidental to its statutory functions.

7.

Collects rents, licence fees and acknowledgements from its tenants and licensees.

8.

Seeks to maximise interest receivable by investing temporary cash surpluses on the short-term money market, in accordance with their Investment Strategy.

1.

Sets the drainage rate and special levies each year based on an estimate of its net expenditure, which can be viewed and downloaded from our website.

2.

Seeks to limit any increases to the Retail Price Index, as indicated by the Office for National Statistics for the month of October every year.