Title: Discharge consents : monitoring and compliance in 1994
Author: National Rivers Authority
Document Type: Monograph
Abstract:
A Consent is a legal document that sanctions the discharge of effluent It states the amount of wastewater that can be. discharged, and may set limits on the composition of the wastewater. There are approximately 110,000 discharges that have Consents. This total covers a great Variety of effluents and dischargers. This report gives the numbers of discharges of various types, and discusses how the discharges are monitored. It also describes the performance of discharges against their Consents. This report deals only with discharges from fixed points, such as the end of a pipe. These discharges .are called Point Source Discharges. It is only these discharges that can be controlled by ; Consent. In this report, the term, Discharge, means Point Source Discharges.
Publisher: National Rivers Authority
Publication Date: 1996
Publication Place: Bristol
Subject Keywords: Waste disposal; Effluents; Licences; Monitoring; Compliance; Annual reports
Geographic Keywords: England; Wales
Extent: 20; + appendices
Permalink: http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:3199
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