8.—(1) Subject to regulations 7(2) and 7(3), the land application of dirty water to any land shall be permitted throughout the year, provided that it is done in a uniform and accurate manner.
(2) The maximum land application of dirty water shall be 50 m3/ha at any one time and a period of at least 2 weeks shall be left between such land applications.
(3) The land application of dirty water shall not be permitted within: –
(a)20m of lakes; or
(b)50m of a borehole, spring or well; or
(c)250m of a borehole used for a public water supply; or
(d)15m of exposed cavernous or karstified limestone features (such as swallow–holes and collapse features); or
(e)10m of any waterway, other than lakes, including open areas of water, open field drains or any drain which has been backfilled to the surface with permeable material such as stone/aggregate; except that
(f)the distance for (e) may be reduced to 3m of any waterway where the land has an average incline less than 10% towards the waterway and where:
(i)organic manures are spread by bandspreaders, trailing hose or trailing shoe or soil injection; or
(ii)the adjoining area is less than 1 hectare in size or not more than 50m in width.
(4) The land application of dirty water shall only take place by spreading close to the ground using inverted splash plate spreading, bandspreading, trailing hose, trailing shoe, soil injection or soil incorporation methods and by irrigation.