Water pollution research (FOI)

​Request

Please will you provide me with details of the scientific and technical research undertaken by the Minister for the Environment into water pollution for each of the years from 2001 to date.

Please include for each piece of research:

• the name of the organisation, or where internal, the title of the postholder undertaking the research

• the purpose of the research

• the terms of reference of the research

• the results of the research including the conclusion(s)

• a list of actions taken by the Environment Department as a result of the research

Response

In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have requested, we estimate that it will take us in excess of 12.5 working hours to determine appropriate material and to locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request. Your request, therefore, will not be processed further.

You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more specific about the information you particularly wish to obtain. We will only be able to process the request if it will take less than 12.5 hours.

There is some information relating to water regulation on the States of Jersey Website that may be of interest to you:

Protecting water environments

Articles and Regulations applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive.

(1)   A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.