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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

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Construction Site Licences

Phil Leeks – Principal Policy Officer, SEPA

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Workshop

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

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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-
  • ff
  • Treat sediment laden run-off
  • Attenuation
  • Swales
  • Pump solutions etc.
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Going wrong

Silt in D&G

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Going wrong

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Going wrong

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Going wrong

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 MORE PHOTOS

Going wrong

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WHY ARE WE DOING IT?

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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

  • f 25°.

 Below this level the activity will be regulated via the GBR.

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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

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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?

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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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Pipes

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Housing

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Questions and Answers