Authors: Owen Fenton, Karen Daly, John Murnane and Patrick Tuohy, May 2024
Year: 2024
The Nitrates Directive aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nutrients from agricultural sources, including livestock manures and other fertilisers, from polluting ground and surface waters, and by promoting good farming practices. Ireland’s Nitrates Action Programme states “There shall be no direct runoff of soiled water from farm roadways to waters”. Despite existing regulation, there has been minimal research in Ireland pertaining to the source, content, pathway, mobilisation and impact of roadway runoff. The Roadrunner project reviewed mitigation measures to treat roadway runoff, developed an on-farm visual tool to find and document connectivity between roadway runoff and waters, and provided the evidence base to define roadway runoff as a unique sub-component of the nutrient transfer continuum.
EPA Spatial Data Inventory, May 2024
Year: 2024
This inventory of spatial information sources can be used to help in preparing SEA Environmental Reports and the associated environmental assessments with up to date environmental information. Data sources/links include air quality, climate, biodiversity, flora, fauna, geology, soils, hydrology and water quality. This inventory was last updated in April 2024 and may not be exhaustive. (See Disclaimer below for terms of use).
Year: 2024
The list of priority areas where treatment must improve to resolve national environmental priorities.
Details of non-personal requests received under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, April 2024
Year: 2024
Details of non-personal requests received under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, published on a quarterly basis.
2022 reference year, April 2024
Year: 2024
This is the third report on GPP activity by Government Departments collating and analysing data for the year 2022. The report presents an overview of the process, monitoring and reporting requirements, data collected and a summary of the findings.
The public sector reform plan required that all Departments and Agencies start publishing quarterly reports on-line detailing purchase orders of value greater than €20,000. The EPA purchase orders over €20,000 for Quarter 1 2024., April 2024
Year: 2024
2022 Reference Year, April 2024
Year: 2024
This document presents the GPP returns submitted by each of the 18 Government Departments for reference year 2022.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Achill Island public drinking water supply Co. Mayo on 30/05/2023.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Clare Island public drinking water supply Co. Mayo on 18/05/2023.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Lough Mask Regional public drinking water supply Co. Mayo on 08/10/2021.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Tibbotstown public drinking water supply Co. Cork on 06/03/2024.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Midleton public drinking water supply Co. Cork on 06/03/2024.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Cavan Regional public drinking water supply on 05/03/2024
Year: 2024
This guidance note aims to improve the general public’s engagement in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice in Ireland. It outlines principles and makes recommendations to ensure that the public are meaningfully informed and consulted during SEA processes, and that any feedback is appropriately integrated into the SEA environmental report and the associated plan/programme. The guidance note is based on a review of international best practice; extensive consultation with SEA practitioners, plan-makers and public participation experts; and lessons learned from a good practice case study piloting novel approaches to public engagement in SEA consultation. These recommendations are transferable to other jurisdictions.
Imogen Hands, Helena Rapp-Wright, Marcin Penk, Damià Barceló Cullerès, Jeremy Piggott, Leon Barron, Fiona Regan and Blánaid White, April 2024
Year: 2024
Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) can be defined as “any synthetic or naturally occurring chemical or any microorganism that is not commonly monitored in the environment but has the potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological and/or human health effects”. This research provides a comprehensive insight into the occurrence and fate of CECs in wastewater treatment effluent on entry to Irish receiving waters. Two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), one urban and one rural were monitored for one year to identify the temporal and spatial occurrence of more than 100 CECs in the aquatic environment and the WWTPs influents and effluents. This work allows contaminants that are not efficiently removed during treatment of municipal effluents to be highlighted and enables an evidence-based prioritisation list of CECs to be developed in Ireland.
Post Number: 000416, April 2024
Year: 2024
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of the EPA’s National Circular Economy Programme (2021-2027) to prevent waste and drive the circular economy in Ireland. This programme will play an important role in fostering a circular economy in Ireland and support the implementation of the Government’s Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy and Whole of Government Circular Economy Strategy.
Year: 2024
EPA response to the public consultation by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications on the draft Climate Action Plan 2024 and associated SEA Environmental Report and Natura Impact Statement.
Uimhir Phoist: 000416, April 2024
Year: 2024
Is deis spreagúil í seo le bheith i gceannas ar sheachadadh Chlár Geilleagair Chiorclach Náisiúnta an EPA (2021-2027) chun dramhaíl a chosc agus an geilleagar ciorclach a thiomáint in Éirinn. Beidh ról tábhachtach ag an gclár seo maidir le geilleagar ciorclach a chothú in Éirinn agus tacóidh sé le cur i bhfeidhm Phlean Gníomhaíochta Dramhaíola an Rialtais do Gheilleagar Ciorclach agus Straitéis an Rialtais Uile.
Year: 2024
This is the EPA submission on the Climate Action Plan 2024 and associated SEA Environmental Report.
Year: 2024
Report of an audit carried out at Westport public drinking water supply on 02/11/2022