Dangerous Substance Usage Bottom Up Study

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A Future For Our Waters Joint Meeting of SWRBD
Technical and Steering Groups Regional Training
Centre, Ballincollig, Co. Cork 12th October
2006 The Significant Water Management Issues
Report Seán Ó Breasail Project Co-ordinator,
SWRBD
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Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) Report
Draft Template

• Article 14 of WFD interim overview two years
  before the beginning of the river basin
  management plan

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Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) Report
Draft Template

• Water issues
• Management issues

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Documents Reviewed

• UK Technical Advisory Group template
• Welsh Office RBMP guidance
• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency contents
  and draft chapters
• Environment Agency (England Wales) draft
  document
• Schedlt document
• French document

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Consultations

• SWAN - EEG
• UK TAG River Basin Management Group
• DEHLG
• EHS (DoE NI)
• NI stakeholders forum
• POMS CG - RBD project co-ordinators / managers,
  EPA, Geological Survey of Ireland, National Parks
  and Wildlife Service, DEHLG
• National Technical Co-ordination Group
• North South Share Steering Group

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Next Consultations

• RBD-ACs two meetings, one before Christmas and
  one after
• SWAN workshop one held 4th October, second one
  early December
• RBD steering and technical groups
• National Co-ordination Group

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SWMI Template

• Chapter headings
• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Assessment of Pressures and Impacts
• 3.0 Significant Water Management Issues
• 4.0 Measures
• 5.0 Next Steps and Conclusions

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SWMI Template

• Length
• between 30 and 40 pages preferably 30
• How many issues will be addressed?
• 9 or 10
• Language
• Plain English (non technical)
• Use of question and answer format

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SWMI Template

• Timescale
• publish 22 June 2007
• comments of minister?/department?/NTCG?/SWAN? by
  22 May 2007
• final draft 22 April 2007
• POMS studies output 22 March 2007 national
  issues
• RBD project output 28 February 2007 local
  issues
• Agree template timescale 13th October 2006?

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SWMI Template

• Style
• EPA style template / A5 or slightly bigger
• Hardcopy vs electronic
• Hard copy - alternative formats translations
• Ownership of the Report
• RBD lead authorities
• NTCG POMS Co-ordination Group RBD projects
• Consultation link to RBDAC

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SWMI Template

• RBD report vs National report
• RBD report gives local ownership leads to draft
  plan
• RoI 7 RBD reports
• NI 3 RBD reports (plus insert for the Shannon
  RBD)
• However as the main studies are national
• Much of the content is generic
• Each project will input to every SWMI
• Requires close co-ordination

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SWMI Template

• 1.0 Introduction
• Introduction to the WFD
• What is the WFD?
• What are its objectives?
• What is status?
• When must the objectives be achieved?
• Who is responsible for implementing the WFD?
• How is this being done?
• What has NI / Ireland done so far?
• What is NI / Ireland doing now? (further
  characterisation / surveys)
• What will NI / Ireland do next?
• How is NI / Ireland co-operating with
  neighbouring Member States?

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SWMI Template

• 1.0 Introduction (continued)
• Introduction to the River Basin District
• The (SE / Shannon / SW/ We / Ea / Neagh Bann / NW
  / NE) RBDs vital statistics
• RBD protected areas
• Why a SWMI report?
• How can the public get involved and make a
  difference?

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SWMI Template

• 2.0 Assessment of Pressures and Impacts
• What pressures and impacts have been assessed
• Abstractions
• Physical changes (morphology)
• Point
• Diffuse
• Others

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SWMI Template

• 2.0 Assessment of Pressures and Impacts
• 
  (continued)
• How have significant issues been identified?
• What are NI / Irelands most significant issues?
  (analysis by RBD)
• groundwaters / rivers lakes / transitional
  coastal waters
• Does the RBD have any special significant issues?
  (analysis by RB or hydrometric area, with RBDAC
  input)

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SWMI Template

• 3.0 Significant Water Management Issues
• for each of the following what is the issue, what
  new data, what new results, any knowledge of
  future trends

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SWMI Template

• 4.0 Measures
• What are measures?
• What existing NI / Irish measures support the
  WFD?
• How can new NI / Irish measures be put in place?
• SWMI what measures are needed and who will be
  involved?
• (for each SWMI describe existing measures, gaps
  requiring future measures - national or local -
  and identify responsible parties and sectors)
• Summary RBD programme of measures and responsible
  parties

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SWMI Template

• 5.0 Next Steps and Conclusions
• Setting WFD Objectives
• What are the WFD objectives?
• What are alternative objectives?
• Extended deadlines
• Temporary deterioration in status
• Designation as Heavily Modified Artificial
  Water Bodies
• Less stringent objectives
• The Role of Further Economic Characterisation
• (scenarios?)
• When will alternative objectives apply?
• (indicative list of sites?)

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SWMI Template

• 5.0 Next Steps and Conclusions (continued)
• Future characterisation work
• Regulatory Impact Analysis
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Conclusions
• Summary
• Gaps and live issues
• The draft first River Basin Management Plan
• Future planning cycles
• Consultations

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SWMI Template

• Discussion Issues
• Harmonisation of reports for international RBDs
• How to identify the SWMIs lines of evidence
• Article 5 analysis
• National reports
• Historical catchment plans and water quality
  reports
• Phosphorous Regulations
• Stakeholder responses
• Expert review
• RBDAC input (issues good practice examples?)

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SWMI Template

• Discussion Issues
• What to include on economics?
• What to include on standards?
• What to include on flooding?
• Input needed on protected areas, if we are going
  to update these post Article 6?
• Input needed on waterbodies, if we are going to
  update these?
• Input needed from Department of Agriculture

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SWMI Template

• RDBAC Role
• Identify key local issues?
• Is the overall template workable?
• Identify good practice examples?
• RBD Local Issues
• What issues are each project team going to
  address?
• Co-ordination
• What is the best way forward?