Save Murragh: West Cork Community Group opposed to a new sand and gravel quarry planned adjacent to Bandon River in Murragh, Enniskeane

Planning Application

http://planning.corkcoco.ie/ePlan/AppFileRefDetails/23260/0

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092560012093

AA Screening Report: Keohane Readymix Ltd

https://keohanereadymix.com/locations/

Section 12 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 & 1990

Under Section 12 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 & 1990, the Local Authority may serve a notice in writing on any person having custody or control of polluting matter. This notice specifies measures to be taken by the person in order to prevent or control the pollution of the water concerned.

It is an offence under Section 3 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 and 1990 to cause or permit any polluting matter to enter waters. A person who permits polluting matter to enter waters shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to prosecution by the Local Authority, the Fisheries Board or any other person. Pollution may originate from a number of sources including agriculture, forestry, industry or badly constructed or badly maintained septic tanks.

Section 12 Notices

Under Section 12 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 & 1990, the Local Authority may serve a notice in writing on any person having custody or control of polluting matter. This notice specifies measures to be taken by the person in order to prevent or control the pollution of the water concerned.

Furthermore a person who does not comply with the terms of a Section 12 Notice shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to prosecution by the Local Authority.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1977/act/1/section/12/enacted/en/html

Note: potentially used as a tool to get controversial pollution matters solved quickly as the order relinquishes the entity being enforced upon from applying for planning permission. This could be used specifically to keep certain enforcement matters under the radar as planning permission triggers a public process etc

Local authorities do not appear to publish Section 12s. FOI/AIE is only channel to request disclosure

Examples:

https://irishriverproject.com/category/section-12-water-pollution-notices/

Kealanine Landfill – Kealanine, Co. Cork (CoA H0089-01)

Kealanine Landfill

March 2022

OEE AIE 2023 16 Decision Letter

“It was my understanding that Cork County Council submitted eight applications to the EPA between 2009 and 2015 for a determination. Newmarket historic landfill (H001-01) was submitted in 2009 and Kealanine (H0089-01) submitted in 2014 were determined and we are awaiting a determination for the remaining sites which are”-


Dunmanway (H0084-01)
Velvetstown (H0008-01)
Pike (H0007-01)
Clonakilty (H0081-01)
Clountreem (H0077-01)
Cloyne (H0082-01)

ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT 2020

Environmental Inspection Plan – RMCEI: Fingal County Council

Resources allocated to complaint investigations during 2022 included 6 litter wardens, 8 waste enforcement officers (increase from 2 in 2021, reflecting staff turnover and complaints allocated to more staff), 1 environmental health officer, 1 executive scientist and 1 water pollution officer, with additional resources available from each team as required.

Complaints referred to by the EPA are fully investigated and an update on outcome provided to the EPA

16 farm inspections (GAP)

Septic Tanks Inspections

Section 4 Trade Effluent Discharge Licences

During 2022 there were 20 active trade effluent discharge licences operating in the Fingal County Council area. Throughout the year, monitoring was carried out and water samples were taken at each of the licence locations.


In total 130 water samples/monitoring of Section 4 discharges were carried out in 2022. All water samples taken were delivered to and analysed by the Central Laboratory. The frequency of monitoring was 4, 6 or 12 times depending on the nature of the discharge and the location of the licence. Any exceedances of limit values for parameters set down in the Section 4 licences were relayed to the Licensees as soon as results were received back from the laboratory. During 2022, 5 licences did not have any exceedances recorded for any of the parameters analysed. The remaining 15 licences recorded exceedances of one or more parameter limit value.

Misconnections

Monitoring: A total of 503 no. Investigative monitoring samples were undertaken (430 targeted and non-statutory rivers plus 101
investigative samples)

Bathing Water

Private Water Supplies

Water Quality Complaints – 171 Inspections

Illegal Waste Sites of Interest

Blancomet Investigation

Domestic waste

Noise

Environmental Inspection Plan – RMCEI: Tipperary County Council

What is the Regulatory Authority* required to do?
Produce and submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an Environmental Inspection Plan (the RMCEI Plan) prior to 01st February of each year:

  • Carry out inspections of installations regulated by environmental legislation, and
  • Produce reports of those inspections.

What does R.M.C.E.I. mean?
R.M.C.E.I. = Recommended Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections
In 2001 the EU Parliament made a Recommendation that Member States provide a document of minimum criteria for Environmental Inspections.

Why?
To contribute to a more consistent implementation and enforcement of EU Environmental law.
All environmental inspections carried out by a local authority should be encompassed within the scope of the R.M.C.E.I. Plan to provide for consistency in regulation locally and nationally and for efficiency in staff management.

What is it?
The Environmental Inspection Plan is a document detailing:

  • the framework of environmental inspection targets to be undertaken in order to achieve environmental priorities and outcomes during the coming year, and
  • identifies the inspections undertaken and the achievement of environmental priorities and outcomes in the previous year, by monitoring the performance against the targets.

What must be in the Plan?

  • Define the time period and geographical area to which the plan relates;
  • Detail specific sites or types of installations covered by the plan;
  • Include a programme for routine environmental inspections;
  • Include procedures for dealing with complaints, accidents and incidents;
  • Develop procedures to coordinate actions with other Inspecting Authorities; and
  • Define a timeframe within which the plan must be reviewed.

Recommendation of the European Parliament and the Council Providing for the Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections in Member States (2001/331/EC)


Inspection & Compliance plan under RMCEI 2022

Kealanine Landfill – Kealanine, Co. Cork (CoA H0089-01)

AIE request AIE-23-11

The only correspondence with the EPA is the submission of the annual AER. The Kealanine AER 2021 was submitted to the EPA on 05/04/22 and I have attached a copy for convenience. The AER 2022 is currently being finalised and will be submitted shortly

This is the fourth report to be submitted by the Council to the Agency since the Certificate of Authorisation (CoA H0089-01) was granted.

This report does not appear to have been released on EPA website

https://epawebapp.epa.ie/terminalfour/HLF/HLF-view.jsp?regno=H0089-01

The landfill site is located at Kealanine (NGR 97620 55014) approximately 5 km east south east of Glengarriff and 7 km north northwest of Bantry. The site is located approximately 1.5 km off the N71 (Bantry to Castletownbere road) via a local road

The waste deposition ceased completely in November 1997

ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT 2021

Historic illegal dumping, Barna Woods, Galway

2008 Report

GALWAY CITY COUNCIL: THE REMEDIATION OF ILLEGAL DUMPING IN BARNA WOODS

Campsite dumped circa 70 tonnes of material into a swallow hole in the 80s – 90s

Could pose a threat to an adjoining SAC in the future

Remediation under consideration

https://goo.gl/maps/vpZWnKecuGJFNx4r6

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