Tay
The chair of each Area Advisory Group (AAG) is supported by a river basin planning co-ordinator.
The co-ordinator and first point of contact for the Tay AAG is:
Name: Lynda Gairns
Email: lynda.gairns@sepa.org.uk
Office: Corporate
Tel.: 01786 452581
The Tay area management plan
The Tay area management plan has been developed by the area advisory group. The summary document is below and information about individual water bodies can be accessed via our interactive map application.
Contents
Available as pdf (1.4mb 
) or view online below
Tay catchment profiles
Catchment profiles are being produced for each catchment to provide detailed information on the river basin planning pressures and the measures required to address those pressures.
The purpose of the profiles is to co-ordinate on the ground action within each catchment to enable the river basin planning objectives to be achieved. Each profile contains an ‘areas for action’ table which lists the specific actions to be delivered.
A how to use guide ( 335kb) has been developed which includes definitions of the more technical terminology.
The catchment profiles are live documents which will be updated; therefore the web version will be the most recent.
| Catchment profile |
Size |
Last updated |
| River Tay |
(528kb) |
January 2012 |
| River South Esk |
(279kb) |
January 2012 |
| River North Esk |
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| River Eden |
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| River Earn |
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| Dighty Water |
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| North Fife Coastal |
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| Perth Coastal |
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| Earn Coastal |
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| Kincardine and Angus Coastal |
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| Dundee Coastal |
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| Lunan Water |
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Membership
Membership of the Tay AAG is determined by the range and type of pressures in the Tay area. Members include representatives from:
- Angus Council
- Dundee City Council
- Fife Council
- Forestry Commission Scotland
- National Farmers' Union, Scotland
- Perth and Kinross Council
- RSPB
- Scottish and Southern Energy
- Scottish Government Rural Inspections and Payments Division
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Scottish Rural Property and Business Association
- Scottish Water
- SEPA
- Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board
- Tay Estuary Forum
Membership is flexible. It will be possible for additional members to be co-opted for agreed periods to assist with the preparation of particular aspects of river basin planning. Such members can be co-opted onto the AAG for single meetings, to cover specific agenda items or for a short period to advise on a particular issue. They will not be full members and therefore will not determine quorum or vote.
Meetings and minutes
The Tay AAG meets regularly and provides a mechanism to support the production of a river basin management plan (RBMP) for the Scotland river basin district, and its co-ordination with other plans and programmes.
Future meetings
The date for the next meeting of Tay AAG will be confirmed soon.
Previous meetings
Agenda, minutes, papers and presentations from the past three meetings of Tay AAG are available online.
Tay AAG forum
Anyone with an interest in the water environment of the Tay can become a member of the Tay advisory group forum.
Presentations and proceedings from previous AAG forum conferences are available from the river basin planning co-ordinator.
Further information
Significant water management issues (SWMI) (1.85mb)
Published in 2007, the report provides a comprehensive assessment of the threats to Scotland’s water and identifies the actions and improvements that are necessary to protect the water environment.
SWMI in Tay (62k)
Summary table of SWMI affecting water bodies in Tay.
Early basin planning work
Information on early river basin management planning work, such as environmental and economic characterisation and Plan of Action.
Monitoring and classification
Information on how monitoring and classification are linked to basin planning can be found on the monitoring and classification pages.
Use the links on the left to visit other AAG pages.