David Harley

Water and Land Manager - SEPA

Flood Risk Management, River Basin Planning & and links to Marine

Planning

Water Framework Directive / Flood Risk Management

Water Framework Directive: • protect and improve• promote sustainable water use• contribute to the mitigation of floods and droughts• River Basin Planning• CAR extends 3NM for Discharges, Abstractions

and Impoundments; Engineering structures limited to freshwater

Flooding risk management:• High quality consistent data • Strategic direction on Flood Risk Management• Continued improvement to flood warning• Enhanced planning advice• Flood Risk Management Planning

Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)• Advice, data• Marine Planning

Scotland River Basin Plans

• Current state (classification)• Impacts (pressures)• Objectives• Actions (measures)

• Scotland’s Plans!

River basin planning – a cyclical process

Environmental Objectives

Significant Water Issues

2004

2006

2008

2009

2012

Public Participation

Characterisation

Monitoring Programme

Programme of Measures

Draft RBMP

Final RBMP

Implement Programme of

Measures

2015

Update RBMP

Plan of Action

↔

RBMP Objectives

• Improve to Good Status• No deterioration

HIGHHIGH

GOODGOOD

MODERATEMODERATE

POORPOOR

BADBAD

Maintain

Res

tore

No deterioration

• CAR authorisation for new activities

• Audit• Enforcement• Environmental events• Planning responses

HIGHHIGH

GOODGOOD

MODERATEMODERATE

POORPOOR

BADBAD

Improve to Good Status

HIGHHIGH

GOODGOOD

MODERATEMODERATE

POORPOOR

BADBAD

Maintain

Res

tore

•Regulation (CAR)

(Quality & Standards)

•Diffuse Pollution

•Restoration Fund

•Facilitate voluntary initiatives

Classification

Objectives

River basin district

Percentage of waterbodies at good or better

2008 2015 2021 2027

Scotland 65 72 77 97

Solway Tweed 49 53 61 91

Restoration (fund)

Urban issues Regulation

Q&S

Rural diffuse

pollution

Delivery gaps?

INNS(voluntary)

Good Status (2027)

Diffuse pollution

Restoration

Mitigation of diffuse pollution in Scotland

National approach Catchment selection based on good science demonstrate impact, pollutant source and pathways.

Priority catchment approach -

Evidence Base Targeted Engagement

Awareness Raising

WFD pressures impacting our coastal and estuarine water bodies

2009 Classification

Scotland RBD water bodies• Transitional (estuary): 40 (7 less than good)• Coastal: 449 (18 less than good)

Solway-Tweed RBD water bodies• Transitional (estuary): 11 (1 less than good)• Coastal: 8 (1 less than good in 2009)

Point sourceDiffuse PollutionInvasive species

Physical pressures…..

Land claim, Outer Clyde Estuary

Tay Railway Bridge, Dundee

Peterhead Harbour, NE Scotland

Hard and Soft Engineering, Aberdeen

Flood Defence, Montrose Basin

Tidal River Straightening, Nith EstuaryChurchill Barrier, Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands

Vision

FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT ACT

…. a risk-based, sustainable and plan-led approach to managing floods - delivered at the catchment scale

Consultation - milestone

• A first for Scotland – first national assessment; all sources of flooding

• First step to improving public investment – targeting expenditure, ensuring investment precedes flooding

• SEPA is delivering its new responsibilities to advise government and local authorities

1 in 20 residential properties (5%)

1 in 14 non-residential properties (7%)

Over 130,000 properties

Weighted Average Annual Damages: £720m to £850m

Flood risk in Scotland

• 14 Local Plan Districts

• Each LPD requires:- FRM Strategy (objectives with appraised measures) - Local FRM Plan with agreed, funded and timetabled actions

FRM Planning Framework

Flooding

RBMP

The catchment approach - why?

• SEPA competent authority for both/expectation from Government and stakeholders

• Reduce risk of conflict

• Highlight opportunities to deliver for both

• Reduce burden on stakeholders

Flooding

RBMP

How?

• AAG boundaries and FRM local plan districts to align where possible

• Pilots

• Timelines considered together

• Consultation and engagement co-ordinated

• Emphasis on multiple benefit projects

Adding marine planning into the mix!

• Need to coordinate RBMP/FRM with regional marine plans

• Marine Planning Partnership representation on RBMP and FRM advisory groups and vice versa

• SEPA role similar to our engagement with land use planning system

• Marine plans should reflect the objectives of WFD and FRM and vice versa.

• Catchment approach