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Guidance : Landfill Directive : Guidance on Monitoring of Landfill Leachate, Groundwater and Surface Water

The principal aims of this guidance document are:
  • to provide technical guidance for monitoring of leachate, groundwater and surface water for waste management licensing and PPC permitting purposes and to comply with the Landfill Regualtions;

  • to describe how risk assessment principles should be used to design monitoring programmes and focus monitoring effort;

  • to provide guidance for Scotland which conforms with the monitoring requirements of the EC Dangerous Substances Directive, EC Groundwater Directive and the European Union (EU) Landfill Directive and the EU IPPC Directive;

  • to provide monitoring guidance within the context of an overall catchment-based water protection strategy (EU Water Framework Directive).

The above documents are presented in Acrobat's PDF format. If you don't already have Acrobat Reader, it is available as a free download from Adobe.

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