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Water :woman-playing-water-polo::skin-tone-5: (Local Authorities :police…
Water :woman-playing-water-polo::skin-tone-5:
Local Authorities :police_car:
Irish Water :flag-ie:
Provision & development of water services
Collection and treatment of waste water
Local and national projects and plans for the improment of water stardars
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Waste Water Discharge Authorisation :female-judge:
Gives licening and certification to companies and inhabitants of areas served by local authorities
Follow directives and policies imposed by EU
The Local Goverment (water Pollution Act) 1977
A waste disposal act
pollution control
guarantees waste disposal standards that are outlined by local authorities
Was outlined and is enforced by local authorities and the Water Pollution Advisory Council
Grants licences through Licensing Authority
licences granted in the case of and industry which has a discharge of waste water or to an area with discharge within the local authorities jurisdiction
Local Autorities review licences and do so if new process are introduced resulting in any change to the water discharge or in the incidence of a material change that results in a change to the waste water
Licences are appealed by An Bord Pleanala
Impact
Monitors the amount of waste water
Records the waste that is disposed
inspects pollutions leves
IMpacts industries which are made to aquire licences before discharging waste into the water
Local Goverment (water Pollution Amendement) Act 199
What Changed???
More regulations in regards to appeals process
Increased penalties under Principal Act along with Clarification of Prosecutions
Introduction of Civil Liability for pollution
Outlines the powers of the local authorities to prevent and decrease pollution
Updated benchmark for licensing
Conducted by Local Authorises
Sources of water pollution :fishing_pole_and_fish:
Eutrophication
Agricultural waste (fertaliser) washed into ground water and eventually rivers, lakes and sea by rain and weathering.
Increased leaves of nitrogen and phosphorus causing enrichment of the water.
Algae booms and oxygen depletion in the body of water
Urban Waste water
Raw Sewage into rivers
domestic waste
Industrial waste
1,000 waste water plants around the country some not capable of coping with the effluent load passing through
Septic tanks fall outside the Irish Water jurisdiction
European Union :flag-eu:
The water categories (river, lakes, groundwater, transitional and coastal waters) come under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), Directive 2000/60/EC
The main Legislations that EPA supervise
The Water Framework Directive, Directive 2000/60/EC
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The Surface Waters Regulations
Implements a widely-range set of environmental standards for Irish Waters
The Water Policy Regulations (S.I. No. 722 of 2003), Surface Waters Regulations (S.I. No. 272 of 2009) and Groundwater Regulations (S.I. No. 9 of 2010)
Watches over the shape of WFD characterisation, monitoring and status asessment programmes in terms of assigning responsabilites for monitoring the water categories
Ground Water regulations
To achieve the groundwater bodies and include groundwater quality standards and threshold values for the classification of groundwater and the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration in groundwater quality
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EPA's role is to assign a number of tasks under the European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations, 2003 (S.I. No. 722 of 2003), which come under the category of “coordination and oversight” of the Irish WFD programme
Responsible of the Articles
Combined use for Point and Diffuse Sources
River Basin Management Plans
Monitoring and Status Assessment
Reporting on behalf of Ireland to the EU Commission and to the European Environment Agency (EEA) on implementation of WFD tasks
Water Body Characterization
Urban Waste Water
domestic waste water (from residential settlements)
Mixture of domestic waste water with industrial waste water (from premises used for trade or industry) and/or run-off rain water
EPA is the regulator responsible for authorizing and enforcing Urban Waste Water discharges
Irish Water is responsible for the collection, treatment and discharge of the Urban Water in compliance with the EPA Waste Water discharge authorization
HydroNet
The EPA HydroNet site provides access to hydrometric data collected from the network of Local Authority hydrometric stations and processed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Maintains the Register of Hydrometric Stations In Ireland, which is available to download from HydroNet
WFD - Water Framework Directive (200/60/EC)
Objective
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To Achieve "good" ecological status for all waters by 2015
Role
Protecting particular use of the water environment form the effect of pollution
Guarding the environment from dangerous chemicals
Defending and restoring structure and function of aquatic ecosystems
Original approach
To protect, improve and sustain the use or rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal waters and ground water within Europe (impacts managements of water quality and resources)
Controls physical and polluting impacts on water resources
Directives
1: Cover full range of water environment from source- to sea (ground waters, rivers, lakes,estuaries, transitional waters and coastal waters)
2: Considers the impacts upon wetlands of the management of water quality and quantity
3: Sets environmental objectives
Takes in account the full range or pressures upon aquatic environment
Pollution
Flow-regulation
Habit impact
4: Divides the Ecological status into 5 Classes
Moderate
Poor
Good
Bad
High
Derived from the measurements of biological, hydro ,morphological and physio- chemical elements
5: Promotes sustainable use of water resources
6: Defines a plan, management and reporting system based upon River Basins, Districts and International River Basin Districts
7: Involves Social participation and transparency
Different parties involved
Stakeholders
Local and regional authorities
Water users (Companies, Industries)
Environmental groups
Drafting and discussing to update River Basin Management Plans
WFD and its relationships with other legislations
Implemented other legislations/ directives
Urban Waste Water Treatment
Habitats and Nitrates directives
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
Replaced a number of water quality directives
Freshwater Fisheries
Shellfish Waters
Surface Water Abstraction
Whats being done??
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Reports
Water Quality Report 2010-2015
Treating Waster water before being released into enviroment
Tackling diffuse pollution
Polluting substances that leak into waters eg pesticides, fertaliser
Good agricultural practices legislation 2007/2014
Water services company