David Harley Water and Land Manager - SEPA
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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