The Waste Management Licensing (England and Wales)(Amendment and Related Provisions)(No. 2) Regulations 2005

Recovery operations at water and sewage treatment works

13.  For paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 substitute—

“10A.— (1) The treatment within the curtilage of a water treatment works of—

(a) sludges from water clarification;

(b) sludges from decarbonation solutions;

(c) sludges from regeneration of solutions and ion exchanges; and

(d) waste water and bore-hole flushings,

arising from water treatment at the works if the total quantity of waste which is treated in any period of twelve months does not exceed 10,000 cubic metres.

(2) The secure storage of waste intended to be submitted to the activities mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) if that storage is at the works where the waste is produced.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5)—

(a) any recovery operation carried on within the curtilage of a sewage treatment works (other than the recovery of sewage, sludge or septic tank sludge as an integral part of the operation of those works) in relation to any of the kinds of wastes from the sources listed in Table 2AB; and

(b) the secure storage within the curtilage of a sewage treatment works of such waste intended to be recovered in reliance upon the exemption conferred by sub-paragraph (a).

Table 2AB

Source of Waste	Kind of Waste
Wastes from other sewage treatment works	Screenings Sludges from treatment of urban waste water
Other municipal wastes	Septic tank sludge Cesspool waste and other sewage sludge Waste from sewage cleaning
Wastes from the preparation of water intended for human consumption or for industrial use	Sludges from water clarification Sludges from decarbonation Solutions and sludges from regeneration of ion exchangers

(4) The total quantity of waste brought to a sewage treatment works in any period of 12 months shall not exceed 100,000 cubic metres.

(5) The activity shall be carried out on an area with an impermeable pavement capable of containing any spillage of waste received and connected to a drainage system with impermeable components which does not leak and which will ensure that—

(a) no liquid will run off the pavement otherwise than via the system; and

(b) except where they may be lawfully discharged, all liquids entering the system are collected in a sealed sump.

(6) In this paragraph, “sludge” (in relation to sewage) and “septic tank sludge” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.”.