The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
1Citation and commencement
2Interpretation
3Sensitive areas and high natural dispersion areas
4Decisions taken on a review of sensitive areas or high natural dispersion areas
5Duty to maintain up to date information about sensitive areas and high natural dispersion areas
6Duty to provide and maintain collecting systems and treatment plants
7Requirements as to provision of treatment
8Discharges of treated urban waste water
9Discharges of industrial waste water to collecting systems or treatment plants
10Discharges of certain industrial waste water into receiving waters
11Dumping of sludge from ships
12Samples and records
13Monitoring
14Deposit of maps
15(1) The Department and the Department for Infrastructure must, acting...
16Revocation of Regulations
SCHEDULE 1
PART ICRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SENSITIVE AREAS
PART IICRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH NATURAL DISPERSION AREAS
SCHEDULE 2REQUIREMENTS FOR COLLECTING SYSTEMS
1Collecting systems shall take into account waste water treatment requirements....
2The design, construction and maintenance of collecting systems shall be...
SCHEDULE 3
PART IREQUIREMENTS FOR DISCHARGES FROM TREATMENT PLANTS
1Treatment plants shall be designed or modified so that representative...
2Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants subject to treatment...
3Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants to those sensitive...
4More stringent requirements than those shown in Table 1 and/or...
5The points of discharge of urban waste water shall be...
PART IIIREFERENCE METHODS FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF RESULTS
1(a) The Department shall apply a monitoring method which corresponds...
2(a) Flow-proportioned or time-based 24-hour samples shall be collected at...
3The minimum annual number of samples shall be determined according...
4The treated waste water shall be assumed to conform to...
5Extreme values for the water quality in question shall not...
SCHEDULE 4INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER
SCHEDULE 5INDUSTRIAL SECTORS REFERRED TO IN REGULATION 10
1Milk processing.
2Manufacture of fruit and vegetable products.
3Manufacture and bottling of soft drinks.
4Potato processing.
5Meat industry.
6Breweries.
7Production of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.
8Manufacturer of animal feed from plant products.
9Manufacture of gelatine and of glue from hides, skin and...
10Malt-houses.
11Fish-processing industry.

2007 No. 187

Water and sewerage services

The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

Coming into operation

The Department for Regional Development and the Department of the Environment are designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to the collection, treatment and discharge of urban waste water and the treatment and discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors.

The Department for Regional Development and the Department of the Environment, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on each Department by that section make the following Regulations: