East Suffolk Water Management Board (ESWMB) is a water management board in

East Suffolk District East Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Suffolk, England. The largest town is Lowestoft, which contains Ness Point, the easternmost point of the United Kingdom. The second largest town is Felixstowe, which has t ...

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

, England. It was reconstituted from the East Suffolk Internal Drainage Board on 24 March 2023.

East Suffolk Internal Drainage Board

The East Suffolk Drainage Board was established in 2008 in accordance with the Statutory Instrument East Suffolk Internal Drainage Board Order, 2008. This order abolished the

Internal Drainage Board An internal drainage board (IDB) is a type of operating authority which is established in areas of special drainage need in England and Wales with permissive powers to undertake work to secure clean water drainage and water level management wit ...

s listed below and transferred the property and obligations of these organisations to the ESIDB * Alderton, Hollesley and Bawdsey Drainage Board, established 1922 * River Blyth Internal Drainage Board, established 1934 * River Deben Internal Drainage Board, established 2005 through the amalgamation of the River Deben (Lower) Internal Drainage Board and the River Deben (upper) Internal Drainage Board, themselves established in 1933. * Fromus, Alde and Thorpeness Internal Drainage Board, established 1936 * River Gipping Internal Drainage Board, established 1933 * Lower Alde Internal Drainage Board, established 2000 * Minsmere Internal Drainage Board, established 1937 * Upper Alde Internal Drainage Board, established 1936

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{{reflist Water management authorities in the United Kingdom East Suffolk (district)