Significant Water Management Issues SWMI Update

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Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI)
Update

• South Eastern River Basin District
• March 2007

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SWMI What is it?

• Public information and consultation booklet to
  encourage active involvement of all interested
  parties in the Water Framework Directive
• Article 14 interim overview of the significant
  water management issues in the river basin, made
  available for public and users comment, 2 years
  before the beginning of the river basin
  management plan
• A local document

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SWMI - What is it?

• SWMI Significant Water Management Issues
• Significant Water Issues
• Management Issues
• How to identify priorities and focus efforts for
  the first river basin management plan?
• Local and national issues

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SWMI Group Discussion

• Water Issues
• What issues are the most significant?
• What do you see as the main causes of these
  problems?
• Management Issues
• What are the management gaps?
• Is there ownership of local problems?
• What activities might help to deliver
  improvements?
• Other Input from Stakeholders
• Identify good practice examples in the RBD?

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SWMI Group Discussion

• Management Group Workshop Dec 06
• Advisory Council Workshop Dec 06

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SWMI Discussion
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SWMI Discussion

• Management Issues
• Joined up development control plan upgrade
  before development
• Lack of resources
• Political will
• Economics charging
• Lack of ownership of the problems
• Education awareness campaigns
• Enforcement use of power, personnel continuity
• Availability of emergency numbers
• Support for NGO initiatives

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SWMI Discussion

• Other Input from Stakeholders
• Nitrates Regs
• GWPS
• Riparian zones - protection (Barrow floodplains)
• Water harvesting alternative treatments
• Inland waterways (Barrow Valley) schools
  competition
• Harvesting rainwater for non-consumption uses
  Kilkenny pilot
• Several litter picking initiatives
• Quarry silt ponds (not increased)
• Fair trade advertising
• SUDS schemes on new developments
• Constructed wetlands

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SWMI Discussion

• SWMI presentation's to Local Authorities
• Wexford SPC 14th Feb
• Carlow SPC 26th Feb
• Laois SPC 5th Mar
• North Tipp SPC 3rd May
• South Tipp SPC 16th May
• North Tipp CoCo 21st May
• Kilkenny/Waterford City SPC is yet to be
  scheduled.

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Significant Water Issues
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Significant Water Issues
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Significant Water Issues

• Background information
• The way that the issue can cause water problems
• The existing controls and their adequacy
• The proposed actions and the parties responsible
  and those affected
• Opinions sought about the proposals to address
  each issue

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Significant Water Issues

• Timescale
• Template agreed by December 2006
• Draft booklet for POMCG review by Easter 2007
• Draft SERBD booklet text late April
• POMS progress summary late May
• Publication 22 June 2007