Internal Drainage Boards

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flood risk management authority local authority public body

Internal Drainage Boards are local public bodies in England and Wales responsible for managing water levels, land drainage, and flood risk in low-lying areas.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Internal Drainage Boards canonical	2

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	flood risk management authority ⓘ local authority ⓘ public body ⓘ
activity	dredging of watercourses ⓘ maintenance of ordinary watercourses ⓘ management of water levels for habitats ⓘ operation of pumping stations ⓘ weed cutting in channels ⓘ
collects	drainage rates from agricultural landowners ⓘ special levies from billing authorities ⓘ
cooperatesWith	Environment Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ lead local flood authorities ⓘ local councils ⓘ
country	England ⓘ Wales ⓘ
fundedBy	drainage rates ⓘ special levies on local authorities ⓘ
governedBy	board of appointed members ⓘ board of elected members ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	internal drainage districts ⓘ
hasMainFunction	flood risk management ⓘ land drainage ⓘ water level management ⓘ
legalFramework	Flood and Water Management Act 2010 NERFINISHED ⓘ Land Drainage Act 1991 NERFINISHED ⓘ
maintains	drainage channels ⓘ embankments ⓘ pumping stations ⓘ sluices ⓘ
memberOf	Association of Drainage Authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ
operatesIn	drainage districts ⓘ low-lying areas ⓘ
purpose	protect infrastructure ⓘ reduce flood risk to people ⓘ reduce flood risk to property ⓘ support agriculture ⓘ
regulates	watercourses ⓘ
relatedTo	flood defence ⓘ land drainage ⓘ watercourse management ⓘ
sector	flood risk management ⓘ water management ⓘ
subjectTo	environmental regulation ⓘ public sector governance ⓘ
typeOfAreaManaged	agricultural land ⓘ rural land ⓘ urban fringes ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Internal Drainage Boards
Description of subject: Internal Drainage Boards are local public bodies in England and Wales responsible for managing water levels, land drainage, and flood risk in low-lying areas.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Somerset Levels → managedBy → Internal Drainage Boards ⓘ

Humberhead Levels → governedBy → Internal Drainage Boards ⓘ