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Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) – Update

Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) – Update. South Eastern River Basin District March 2007. SWMI – What is it?. Public information and consultation booklet to encourage active involvement of all interested parties in the Water Framework Directive

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Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) – Update

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  1. Significant Water Management Issues (SWMI) – Update South Eastern River Basin District March 2007

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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?

  5. Management Group Workshop Dec 06 Advisory Council Workshop Dec 06 SWMI Group Discussion

  6. SWMI Discussion

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. Significant Water Issues

  11. Significant Water Issues

  12. 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

  13. 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

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