An interim overview of the significant water management issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district

An interim overview of the significant water management issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district

Contents

1.	Introduction
1.1	Purpose of this report
1.2	The river basin planning process
1.3	The role of the Area Advisory Groups
1.4	Further characterisation
1.5	Strategic Environmental Assessment
1.6	Next steps
2.	Consultation arrangements
2.1	Consultation questions
2.2	How to respond
2.3	Keeping you informed
3.	Introducing the Solway Tweed river basin district
3.1	The Solway Tweed river basin district
3.2	Characterisation of the Solway Tweed river basin district
3.3	Protected area register
4.	Significant water management issues
4.1	What are significant water management issues?
4.2	Identification of the significant issues
4.3	What are we doing in the Solway Tweed river basin district to address significant issues?
4.4	Development of measures
4.5	What are we doing to implement and develop measures?
4.6	Measures to prevent deterioration in status
5.	The importance of climate change to the water environment
6.	Significant water management issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
6.1	Pollution
6.2	Abstraction and flow regulation
6.3	Morphology
6.4	Alien species
6.5	Diffuse pollution from agriculture
6.6	Diffuse pollution from forestry
6.7	Diffuse pollution from sea and coastal water transport
6.8	Diffuse pollution from acidification
6.9	Diffuse and point source pollution from sewage disposal activities
6.10	Point source pollution from manufacturing
6.11	Point source pollution from electricity generation
6.12	Abstraction and flow regulation pressures and morphological change from water supply
6.13	Abstraction pressures from agriculture
6.14	Abstraction and flow regulation pressures from hydropower
6.15	Morphological change from agriculture
6.16	Morphological change from forestry
6.17	Alien species from recreational, sporting and cultural activities
7.	Next steps
7.1	Production of the draft river basin management plan
7.2	Objective setting

Annex A	Further characterisation undertaken by SEPA in the Scottish part of the Solway Tweed river basin district
Annex B	Evidence for significant water management issues in the Scottish part of the Solway Tweed river basin district
Annex C	Significant issues in the Solway and Tweed sub-basins
Annex D	Expected status of water bodies in the Scottish part of the Solway Tweed river basin district in 2015

List of tables
Table 1:	UK agreed reporting categories
Table 2:	Implications of climate change for the significant water management issues
Table 3:	Significant water management issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 4:	Significant diffuse source pollution issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 5:	Significant point source pollution issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 6:	Significant abstraction and flow regulation issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 7:	Significant morphology issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 8:	Significant alien species issues in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 9:	Measures to address the impacts of diffuse pollution from agriculture
Table 10:	Measures to address the impacts of diffuse pollution from forestry
Table 11:	Measures to address the impacts of acidification
Table 12:	Measures to address the impacts of point source and diffuse source pollution from sewage disposal activities
Table 13:	Measures to address the impacts of abstraction and flow regulation and morphological change from water supply
Table 14:	Measures to address the impacts of abstraction from agriculture
Table 15:	Measures to address the impacts of abstraction and flow regulation from hydropower
Table 16:	Measures to address morphological impacts from agriculture
Table 17:	Measures to address morphological impacts from forestry
Table 18:	Measures to address impacts from invasive alien species
Table 19:	Results of application of heavily modified water bodies screening tool in the Solway Tweed river basin district
Table 20:	Reasons for water bodies being designated heavily modified
Table 21:	Results of applying the heavily modified screening tool to provisionally identified heavily modified water bodies in the Solway Tweed river basin district

List of figures
Figure 1:	The river basin planning process
Figure 2:	The programme of measures cycle
Figure 3:	Continuum of measures
Figure 4:	Developing measures to ensure good status
Figure 5:	HMWB designation tests as defined by Article 4.3 of the WFD

List of maps
Map 1:	The Solway Tweed river basin district
Map 2:	Surface water bodies at risk from diffuse source pollution pressures
Map 3:	Groundwater water bodies at risk from diffuse source pollution pressures
Map 4:	Surface water bodies at risk from point source pollution pressures
Map 5:	Groundwater water bodies at risk from point source pollution pressures
Map 6:	Surface water bodies at risk from abstraction and flow regulation pressures
Map 7:	Groundwater water bodies at risk from abstraction pressures
Map 8:	Surface water bodies at risk from morphological pressures
Map 9:	Surface water bodies at risk from alien species pressures
Map 10:	Provisional heavily modified water bodies