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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (revoked) No. 3538
8.—(1) Storage in a secure container or lagoon (or, in the case of dewatered sludge, in a secure place) of sludge which is to be used in accordance with the 1989 Regulations if—
(a)the sludge is stored at the place where it is to be used;
(b)the sludge is stored at a distance of at least—
(i)10 metres from any watercourse,
(ii)50 metres from any spring or well, or from any borehole not used to supply water for domestic or food production purposes, and
(iii)250 metres from any borehole used to supply water for domestic or food production purposes;
(c)no sludge is stored within a zone defined by a 50 day travel time for groundwater to reach a groundwater source used to supply water for domestic or food production purposes;
(d)no sludge is stored within 0.3 metres of the top of an open storage container or within 0.75 metres of the top of an earthbank tank or lagoon;
(e)no sludge is stored for a period of more than 12 months; and
(f)no more than 1,250 tonnes of sludge is stored at any one time.
(2) In this paragraph “sludge” means residual sludge from sewage plants treating domestic or urban waste waters and from other sewage plants treating waste waters of a composition similar to domestic and urban waste waters.
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