Transcript Dangerous Substance Usage (Bottom Up Study)

What happens next?
November 2007
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Contents
WFD timetable & consultations
The River Basin Management Planning Process
Applying classification
Making the Programme of Measures
The draft River Basin Management Plan
How the Plan might affect LA’s.
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WFD Timetable
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Water Matters – Have Your Say!
• Formal consultation period finishes in December 2007
• A digest of all responses will be produced by spring 2008
• The submissions will help to identify
– any issues that the booklet missed
– comments about the issues in the SE waters (geographical problems)
– consensus on the proposed measures for each topic
– this will shape how the actions are applied in the SE river basin district
• Consultation inputs will be incorporated into the draft plan (Dec 08)
• Further consultations on the draft plan will shape the final plan (Dec 09)
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The River Basin Management Planning Process
Prevent deterioration
Maintain high status
Monitor water bodies
Protected area objectives
Most stringent applies !
Classify their “status”
This is a complex process !
Default Objectives
What objectives apply ?
Which pressures ?
Restoration to at least good
status by 2015
Set Objectives
What are key risk factors ?
What are technical options ?
Programmes of Measures
What are the most cost
effective measures ?
Implement
What is a realistic
timeframe for
implementation ?
Review performance
Source: Dr C Byrne DEHLG
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Applying Classification
ECOLOGICAL
STATUS
No or
minimal
HIGH
Slight
GOOD
Quality
Standards
Min Objective
Moderate
Major
Bad
MODERATE
POOR
BAD
Good Status = Good ecological status & good chemical status
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Applying Classification
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Applying Classification
River
Lake
Y
Transit.
Y
Marine
Y
Composition and abundance of aquatic flora
Y
Y
Y
Y
Invertebrates
Composition and abundance of benthic fauna
Y
Y
Y
Y
Fish
Composition, abundance and age structure
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Y
Y
Element
Parameters
Phytoplankton
Composition, abundance and biomass
Macrophytes
Conditions
Parameter
Thermal
Temperature
DO
BOD
pH
Ammonium
DIN
MRP
Total Phosphorus
Oxygen
Acid
Nutrient
Rivers
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Ireland
Lakes
Transitional
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Coastal
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Proposed standards for 18 Specific Relevant Pollutants
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Making the Programme of measures
Schedule of POMS Studies & Lead RBDs
Leading RBD
Measures & Standards Study Name
WRBD
1. On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems
2. Forest and Water
High status sites
ShRBD
3. Freshwater Morphology
SERBD
4. Setting Chemical Water Quality Standards
SWRBD
5. Industrial & Municipal Regulation
6. Dangerous Substances
7. Marine Morphology
8. Heavily Modified Water Bodies & Artificial Water Bodies
9. Water Balance Model for Setting Chemical Water Quality Standards
ERBD
10. Abstraction Pressures
11. Groundwater Risk from Diffuse Mobile Organics
12. Urban Pressures in rivers, transitional and ground waters
13. Further Economic Characterisation
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Making the Programme of measures
The Bathing Water
Directive (76/160/EEC);
The Birds Directive
(79/409/EEC);
The Drinking Water
Directive (80/778/EEC)
as amended by Directive
(98/83/EC);
The Major Accidents
(Seveso) Directive
(96/82/EC);
Focussed
supplementary
measures
where basic
measures not
enough
The Environmental
Impact Assessment
Directive (85/337/EEC);
The Sewage Sludge
Directive (86/278/EEC);
The Urban Waste-water
Treatment Directive
(91/271/EEC);
The Plant Protection
Products Directive
(91/414/EEC);
The Nitrates Directive
(91/676/EEC);
The Habitats Directive
(92/43/EEC) ;
The Integrated Pollution
Prevention Control
Directive (96/61/EC).
Other
prescribed
basic measures
e.g. New
controls on
dangerous
substance
discharges,
abstractions
and physical
modifications
Source: Dr C Byrne DEHLG
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Making the Programme of measures
Paramount - Protected areas and protection of
good/high status waters must be addressed.
Thereafter, critical factors should be taken into
account in prioritising waterbodies for restoration
under the various programmes and plans;
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The current status of water body (Distance to
target)
Critical risk factors (e.g. current scale of
pressure, performance of wastewater treatment
facilities, pollution pathway factors such as
surface water run-off risk, groundwater
vulnerability)
The predicted trend in pressures causing failure
by 2015
The technical challenge of implementing the
necessary work on the ground in time for 2015.
Costs ?
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The draft River Basin Management Plan
Plan Report
Tool
Dec 08/Aug
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Background Information
(POMS, class etc)
December 2008
RBD
Consultants
&
Agencies
RBD draft Plan
December 2008
RBD final Plan
August 2009
RBD
Consultants
&
Agencies
WISE
Information
March 2010
2010 report to Minister &
commission
March 2010
Agencies
“publish”
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The draft RBM Plan Reporting Tool
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The draft RBM Plan Reporting Tool
• TYPOLOGY – text eg an upland river in an alkaline area etc
• PROTECTED STATUS – Reg of Protected Area tick list table (citation text?)
• MONITORING SITES – table of sites within the waterbody with co-ords,
code, programme (S/O/I), list of status elements measured & who monitors
• STATUS – table of overall WFD status and sub elements (Annex 5) - eg
rivers biology, morph, hydro, phys-chem and overall chemical, date status
calculated
– should a history be presented or is 2007 baseline to be added to?
– should full chemical status be presented or a summary listing failures?
• DEFAULT OBJECTIVES – table stating default objective and recording any
modifications (ie exemption or revised timescales)
• POMS – tick list table (based on simplified 2010 format)
– SWMI topic and key measures themes for each (eg WWTP/CSO upgrade,
industrial license review, landfill study, SSRS/farm survey, septic tank restrictions,
forestry restrictions, dang subs monitoring, abstraction license, reduction
programme, morph restoration action, planning restrictions, aliens)
– Also need the by who and when
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Local Authority Actions
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Local Authority Actions
MIR - New national licensing system for WWTS & licence reviews
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LAs will be required to obtain licenses for treatment plants, secure WSIP resources for
upgrades and undertake review of all Section 4 and 16 industry discharge licenses and
undertake enforcement regarding the industrial licences
Other Points - Controls adequate. Compliance + enforcement critical
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LAs will be required to complete registration and risk assessment of these facilities,
where necessary secure resources for remedial measures and to undertake
enforcement activities
Agriculture - NAP adequate. But review in 2009. Sensitive areas
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LAs will be required to undertake SSRS investigations in at risk/impacted catchments to
assess NAP compliance, with follow-up farm surveys and where necessary to
undertake pollution enforcement activities
Septic Tanks - Guidance. Identify high risk areas + modify development plans
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LAs will be required to align land use policy, secure resources for sewering priority
areas and where necessary to undertake pollution enforcement activities
Forestry - Guidance. Prohibit afforestation in high risk areas
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LAs will be required to align land use policy and where necessary to undertake pollution
enforcement activities
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Local Authority Actions
Dangerous Substance - New water quality standards + inclusion in discharge licences
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As MIR - LAs will be required to undertake review of all Section 4 and 16 industry
discharge licenses and undertake enforcement regarding the industrial licences – further
LA activities are likely to become licensed in future for example CSO’s weed spraying etc
Morphology - New national registration & licensing system + guidance
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Likely lead role to EPA however LAs may be required to undertake licensing of small
activities, include morphology considerations in the planning approvals processes and in
priority areas secure resources for restoration measures, LAs may also be required to
apply for morphology licenses for their own schemes
Abstractions - New national registration & licensing system + guidance
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Likely lead role to EPA however LAs may be required to undertake licensing of small
activities and apply for abstraction licenses for major schemes
Protected areas – Enforcement of Plans and where necessary land use control
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LAs will be required to align land use policy and where necessary to assess development
applications in designated catchments
Additional activities
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Educational awareness programmes – in support of all significant issues
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Response to the local issues eg alien species as identified in the SWMI.
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Thank You!
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