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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Andrew,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My understanding is that the environment agency can have certain areas nominated as ‘reservoir’ as part of a flood defence scheme. Despite not being watered most of the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">e.g.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.rugby.gov.uk/news/article/1628/council_works_with_environment_agency_to_bolster_butlers_leap_flood_defences">https://www.rugby.gov.uk/news/article/1628/council_works_with_environment_agency_to_bolster_butlers_leap_flood_defences</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gareth</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk">Andrew Hain</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>05 December 2021 13:22<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Talk-GB] Mapping reservoirs</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Most reservoirs in the UK are tagged natural=water (in common with other water areas), usually qualified with water=reservoir [<a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/water=reservoir">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/water=reservoir</a>].
Some, however, are tagged landuse=reservoir instead [<a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/landuse=reservoir">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/landuse=reservoir</a>]. Is there any need to keep the landuse=reservoir tag or should everything
go under natural=water?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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