Stakeholder Review SR1-2007 (CLOSED)

These 3 UKTAG reports provide the second phase of UK environmental standards and conditions, comprising:

• A draft UKTAG Report (subject to Stakeholder review) on the proposed UK Groundwater Classification Framework (comprising chemical and quantitative classification);
• A draft UKTAG Report (subject to Stakeholder review) on the proposed environmental standards for Specific Pollutants
• A draft UKTAG Report (subject to Stakeholder review) on the remaining proposed Surface Water Environmental Standards and Conditions. Following on from the first technical review on environmental standards and conditions in 2006, these standards will support healthy communities of aquatic plants and animals, specifically:
  • nitrogen in estuaries and coastal waters;
  • phosphorus in lakes;
  • temperature standards for lakes, rivers, estuaries and coastal waters;
  • suspended solids management approach;
  • standards and conditions for managed flows;
  • standards and conditions for freshwater flow to estuaries;
  • a system for assessing the structure and condition of the bottom and banks of lakes;
  • a system for assessing the structure and condition of the beds/bottom and banks of transitional and coastal waterbodies.

All three reports also explain how the standards and conditions were derived and how they might be used to support implementation of the Directive

Terms of Reference for Stakeholder Review

Stakeholder Review open:  25th June - 8th August 2007

• Surface Water submissions received:  26 - link for submission summary
• Specific Pollutants submissions received:  24 - link for submission summary
• Groundwater submissions received:   17 - link for submission summary

UKTAG response and final reports:

• Groundwater Classification Framework final report and response released December 2007 
• Specific Pollutants final report and response released January 2008
• Surface Water Environmental Standards and Conditions final report and response released April 2008