Updated: Updated MCERTS: performance standard for portable emission monitoring systems.
The Environment Agency set up its Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTS) to provide a framework of standards you can use to monitor things that affect the environment.
Updated: Updated contact details for IT – Emerging Technologies and Programmes procurement team.
Procurement expenditure categories at the Environment Agency. Names and contact details for the team member responsible for each procurement category.
Updated: The APHA regulatory and compliance policy has been updated.
The document outlines the APHA’s regulatory functions, the principles of Better Regulation which guide these functions and our policy on achieving compliance.
We are the national regulator in Great Britain responsible for the delivery of government policies on animal health and welfare on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Scottish Government and Welsh Government.
We are the designated UK Management Authority under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and work on behalf of the Food Standards Agency in relation to the Food Hygiene Regulations.
We implement and enforce plant and bee health policy and the release and marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in England, and in Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government. We also enforce compliance with egg marketing standards.
Updated: Added 2018-2019 charter.
The Environment Agency is the navigation authority for the non tidal River Medway. Read their customer charter to find out how they manage the River Medway.
Updated: New notice to mariners added.
Current condition on the River Medway:
Green: all clear (effective from 9am 6 September 2018).
This web page will only be updated during business hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). Outside these hours, customers should call Allington Lock on 01622 752864 for the latest stream information.
There are currently no unplanned closures on the River Medway. See planned lock closures and river draining for 2018.
| When | Where | What’s happening |
| Sunday 9 September 2018 | Town Lock pen, Tonbridge | Dragon Boat Races, The races will begin at the bend after the sports ground and finish at Big Bridge, approximately 200 metres downstream. There will be 2 boats in each race (3 in the final). The event will commence at 07.30 hours and finish at 17.30 hours. Would all other river users please give the racing crews unhindered passage during these times. |
| Sunday 23 September 2018 | Maidstone Invicta Rowing Club to St Peter’s bridge, Maidstone | Maidstone Invicta Rowing Club will be holding the Maidstone Spring Head Race. The races will be run on a timed basis over a course from just upstream of the Malta Inn, Allington to just before St Peter’s bridge, Maidstone. There will be four divisions starting at 09:00, 10:45, 12:30 and 14:15 hours. Each race should last between 30 and 45 minutes. |
There are no current planned closures on the River Medway.
Find out about river levels on the Medway.
The Environment Agency sends email updates on planned River Medway closures and restrictions. To subscribe to this service, email allington.lock@environment-agency.gov.uk with ‘subscribe to notice to mariners’ in the subject line.