Ruth Noden - 17-Jul-2007
- The draft report for the Test and Itchen
Catchment Flood Management Plan is now available
for public consultation. The Environment
Agency is inviting people concerned about
flooding in the catchment to help identify
how flood risk from certain rivers in Hampshire
can be managed.
Catchment Flood Management Plans are large-scale
plans that explore and identify long-term
policies to manage flood risk for an entire
river catchment. The Test and Itchen Catchment
Flood Management Plan covers an area that
falls between Salisbury in the West to Petersfield
in the East, and from Ludershall and Andover
in the north down to Southampton Water on
the English Channel.
The draft plan is now open to public consultation
until 28th September 2007. Anyone who has
an interest in the area can now contribute
or comment on it.
Tim Kermode Environment Agency Hampshire
Area Flood Risk Manager, said:
“This draft has been developed in partnership
with a number of organisations and helps
improve our understanding of how the river
catchments function. It is important that
local people are involved in the preparation
of these plans so we urge anyone who has
an interest in this area or concerns about
flooding to take the opportunity to tell
us their views.
“This is an important stage before we develop
the final plan which will identify the most
appropriate way of managing flood risk in
this area of Hampshire. After the consultation
period we will continue to work with our
partners to ensure that policies will manage
flood risk as well as achieving additional
environmental benefits.”
Members of the public can inspect copies
of the document at Andover Library, Eastleigh
Library, Romsey Library, Southampton Central
Library and Winchester Reference Library.
It is also available at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/southern/.
Anyone wishing to consult on the Test and
Itchen Catchment Flood Management Plan should
respond to: Regional Strategic and Development
Planning, Environment Agency, Guildbourne
House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing, West Sussex,
BN11 1LD or email ian.s.walker@environment-agency.gov.uk
by 28th September 2007.
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Illegal substances taken to landfill
Rita Penman - 16-Jul-2007 - A waste company
has today (Fri) been fined by Northampton
Magistrates’ Court for charges relating
to rubbish taken to Kings Cliffe landfill
site, Northamptonshire without the right
paperwork to correctly identify it.
In a prosecution brought by the Environment
Agency, Veolia ES (UK) Limited(Onyx) of
London admitted one charge.
The charge related to June 2004 when an
offence was committed in breach of the Environmental
Protection Act 11000.
Kings Cliffe landfill site is classed as
a hazardous waste site and is not allowed
under its Environment Agency permit to accept
any waste in liquid form or any waste which
is flammable or highly flammable.
Waste management company Veolia ES (UK)
Limited(Onyx) was charged with failing to
comply with its duty of care to identify
waste correctly on paperwork in June 2004.
Among a load taken to the landfill site
were liquids (which are excluded) including
alcohol/glycol mix and silicone oils. Of
the four samples taken, two had the potential
to damage the landfill liner.
The company was fined £1,000 and
ordered to pay £2,500 costs.
After the hearing Environment Agency manager
John Sweeney said: ‘The Environment Agency
detected these wastes at the Kings Cliffe
Hazardous Waste Landfill Site and consequently
it was prevented from entering the landfill
and causing harm to the site liner or producing
harmful emissions from the site.
‘By bringing this case to court we wish
to draw attention to the important role
waste producers have in properly describing
their waste and ensuring its safe disposal.
We hope in the future waste producers take
more seriously these responsibilities so
that the risk of their waste causing harm
to the environment or human health is minimised.’
Veolia ES Onyx Ltd pleaded guilty to:
On or about 3 June 2004 in Northamptonshire,
as a company which carries, keeps, treats
or disposes of controlled waste failed to
comply with a duty of care imposed by Section
34(1) and 5 of the Environmental Protection
Act 11000, namely, on the transfer of waste,
you failed to secure that there was transferred
such written description of the waste as
would have enabled other companies to avoid
a contravention of any condition of a permit
granted under Regulation 10 of the Pollution
Prevention and Control (England and Wales)
Regulations 2000 and to comply with the
duty under Section 34(1), contrary to Section
34(1) (c) (ii) and 34(6) of the Environmental
Protection Act 11000.
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Top award for Environment Agency employee
Lyn Fraley - 16-Jul-2007 - Noreen Nargas
from Burton on Trent has recently been awarded
the prestigious "Best Trainee Planner
2007" award by Path National Ltd.
Noreen works in the Planning Liaison team
at our offices at Fradley Park, Lichfield.
Path National Ltd is a Skills Development
Agency which seeks to address the under-representation
and inequalities of Black and Minority Ethnic
(BME) groups.
The annual award ceremony took place on
5 July 2007 at the Emirates Stadium in London.
Nominations had been made by Noreen's colleagues
and managers in recognition of her efforts
and achievements in Town & Country Planning
within the Environment Agency.
The award was sponsored by the Royal Town
Planning Institute and judged by a panel
from Path National's Management Board.
Noreen's manager, John Betteridge says
"I am delighted with Noreen’s achievement.
She is a real asset to the team. We are
working with Path National Ltd to increase
the diversity of our workforce to better
reflect the community we serve.
"The partnership with Path is just
one of our initiatives, which together have
resulted in a doubling of BMEs in the workforce
over the last four years."
