Engineering in the Water Environment

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Engineering in theWater Environment
Roy Richardson
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Presentation Summary

• Tradition of River Engineering
• WFD and Sustainable Development
• Aims of Water Environment Regulation
• One year on

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River Engineering

• Institute of Civil Engineers (1828)
• .directing the great sources of power in nature
  for the use and convenience of man

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RIVER
ROAD
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river engineering
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river management

• world is changing!
• water framework directive
• making space for water
• flood risk management research consortium (FRMRC)
• promotion of sustainable flood management in
  Scotland
• EU Floods Directive

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Water Framework Directive

• framework for management of water environment
  across Europe to
• protect, enhance and restore ecological quality
  of the water env
• reduce pollution
• promote sustainable water use
• contribute to mitigation of floods and droughts

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Legislation

• Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland)
  Act 2003
• River Basin Planning
• NEW Abstraction, Impoundments, Engineering and
  Diffuse Pollution Regulations
• NEW Restoration and Remediation Regulations
• Duty to Promote Sustainable Flood Management

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Controlled Activities Regulations

• Water Environment (Controlled Activities)
• (Scotland) Regulations 2005
• 3 Levels of Authorisation
• Require efficient use (good practice)
• Protect Ecological Quality
• Protect interest of other water users
• Manage Flood Risk and promote SFM
• Enforcement
• Cost directly recovered (approx. 20M per year)

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Environmental Standards

• System for managing the level of modification in
  the Water Environment
• Underpins SEPAs approach to managing
  hydromorphology
• Transparent, consistent and risk-based
• Based on sound science
• Adaptable

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Database and River Types
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CAR Risk Assessment
ecological risk
Environmental Protection Officer
Specialist Regulatory and Science Staff
detailed design and mitigation
derogations
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Information Requirements
sepa.org.uk/wfd/guidance/engineering
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One year on

• River Morphology Standards
• Regulatory Method
• Position Statements
• Charging Scheme
• Extension of Transitional Arrangements
• Good Practice Guides

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Position Statements

• Emergency Works
• immediate risk to built property, infrastructure,
  human health or water quality
• Culverting of Watercourses
• presumption against culverting
• Sediment Management
• presumption against gravel removal

sepa.org.uk/wfd/guidance/engineering
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Charging Scheme

• Further Reductions
• replacement of existing structures
• works on small watercourses (lt2m wide)
• Quick Guide to Engineering Charges

sepa.org.uk/wfd/regimes/charging.htm
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Transitional Arrangements

• Requirement for authorisation delayed until 1st
  April 2007
• Still need to APPLY
• Enforcement powers still available

sepa.org.uk/wfd/regimes/special_engineering.htm
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Good Practice Guides
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sepa.org.uk/wfd
questions?