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The Long-term Water Strategy: The NIEA Perspective Stephanie Millar Strategy Development DRD Lead , NIEA partner in development Key Principles Integration Sustainable and Holistic Planning to Protect our Water Resource NIEA

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The Long-term Water Strategy: The NIEA Perspective

Stephanie Millar

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Strategy Development

DRD Lead , NIEA partner in development
Key Principles

– Integration – Sustainable and Holistic Planning to Protect our Water Resource

NIEA Involvement

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Key Drivers

EU Water Framework Directive
EU Habitats Directive
EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
EU Floods Directive
NI Sustainable Development Strategy
Planning Policy Statements

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Key Action

River Basin Management

Plans

Catchment Approach
Achieve Good Status

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Part 3: Flood Risk Management and Drainage

Storm Water Management Group

– To establish and develop an integrated and catchment based approach to stormwater management. – Develop collaborative approaches to identify innovative and feasible solutions to managing stormwater problems. – Underpin the solutions with policy and statutory regulation where necessary in Northern Ireland,

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Ballyclare Pilot Study

key objectives include:

To reduce operating costs for Northern

Ireland Water.

To reduce the costs of (drainage)

development in the proposed housing development.

To reduce the number / frequency of

storm overflows.

To reduce the quantity of runoff from

existing and new roads/impermeable areas.

To protect the capacity of the existing

sewage network and treatment plant,.

To lower the flood risk for the Six Mile

River and help resolve localised flooding in Ballyclare.

To improve biodiversity and amenity in

this area.

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Part 4: Environmental Protection and Improvement

Effective Regulation

– Adopting a holistic catchment based approach – Setting conditions which ensure no deterioration

r improvement to the waterbody

– Enforcement Action for non-compliance

Pollution Response

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Part 5: Water and Sewerage Services

Price Control Regime: PC 15
Sustainable Waste Water

Treatment Solutions

– Drumkee Willow Plantation

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Implementation

Implementation Plans

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