Phil Leeks Principal Policy Officer, SEPA Workshop Construction - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Construction Site Licences Phil Leeks – Principal Policy Officer, SEPA

Workshop • Construction SUDS Workshop • Explanation of environment being protected on construction sites • Highlight generic solutions • What happens when it goes wrong • Regulations • Pollution Prevention Plans • Case studies

Environment on a Construction Site • Soil • Resource • Geology • Rivers • Geomorphology process moves sediment down river • Sediment from construction sites causes smothering • Rain • In Scotland it rains – a lot!

Environment on a Construction Site

Solutions • Solutions can be simple and/or technical • Reduce amount of exposed soils • Reduce amount of surface water run-off • Reduce chance of soil mixing with run- off • Treat sediment laden run-off • Attenuation • Swales • Pump solutions etc.

Going wrong Silt in D&G

Going wrong

Going wrong

Going wrong

Going wrong  MORE PHOTOS

WHY ARE WE DOING IT?

RANGE OF ACTIVITIES  The requirements for a licence will be where a construction site, including any constructed access tracks:  has an area of 4 hectares or more;  a length of 5 km or more; or  includes any area of more than 1 hectare or any length of more than 500 metres on ground with a slope in excess of 25°.  Below this level the activity will be regulated via the GBR.

RANGE OF ACTIVITIES  GBR10b  Know how your sites works and how you are controlling the run-off to prevent sediment going into the river  Construction SUDS Licence  Application to SEPA  Write a Pollution Prevention Plan  Keep the Pollution Prevention Plan up- to-date  Work on site as described in the Pollution Prevention Plan

Pollution Prevention Plan • What land? • What construction activity? • Point of Contact • Identify pollution risks • How are you preventing pollution? • Managing the water run-off • What if something goes wrong? • How do you know your Pollution Prevention Plan is effective and being adhered to? • Who is in charge of making the plan work?

Tracks Example route map. Brown = track at >3km and 4m wide; light brown = passing places (indicative only); grey – borrow pit; red = freshwater SSSI; green = Geological SSSI; blue square = water crossing; orange circle = deep peat/blanket bog; light green circle = pollution risk area.

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