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Implementing the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: Consultation on proposals for environmental standards and conditions – phase 1

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D - SECOND PHASE OF STANDARDS

Depending on the progress of UKTAG work and the availability of additional information, proposals for a second set of environmental standards during 2007 are likely to include:

Proposed standards - Phase 2

Water Quality

Indicator

Water body

Temperature

Rivers, lochs, transitional and coastal waters

Nutrients - nitrogen

Transitional and coastal waters possibly - if amended

Nutrients - phosphorus

Freshwater lochs

Transparency

Lochs, transitional and coastal waters (rivers not required)

Water Resources

Indicator

Water body

Compensation flows

Rivers

Freshwater flows into estuaries

Transitional and coastal waters

Morphology

Indicator

Water body

% change from natural conditions

Frameworks for lochs and for transitional and coastal waters

Specific Pollutants

Substance

[Priorities that can be developed for the first RBMP cycle will be selected from this list]

Group 1

Aluminium, Chromium, Diazinon, Phenol, Copper, Iron, Tetrachlorethane, Arsenic, Cyanide, Manganese, Toluene, Chlorine, Cypermethrin, Permethrin, Zinc

Group 2

2,4 dichlorophenol, Linuron, 2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), Mecoprop, Dimethoate

Other chemicals from the Dangerous Substances Directive List II

(Those subject to UK regulation (1997 & 1998) and still in use.)

4-chloro-3-methylphenol, Bentazone, Fenitrothion, 2-chlorophenol, Biphenyl, Malathion, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, Chloronitrotoluenes, Triphenyltin, 1,1,2-trichloroethane, Dichlorvos, Xylenes

Groundwater

Quality

Quantity

Following a consultation, a second set of standards is likely to be introduced in Scotland during 2007 and will be used in the first cycle of RBMP.

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