Wastewater Source Control, Various Locations

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    Planning & Licencing

    We provided technical services to Irish Water (IW) to build a new capacity and function within the organisation to manage the risks presented by the discharge of trade effluent.  The project centralised the function from 31 local authorities to a new function in Irish Water. The project team worked collaboratively with over 100 local authority and Irish Water staff on the ground and the relevant business stakeholders to develop protocols for licensing, inspection, interim charging, strategic and tactical planning. It also established a risk management and governance framework for issues relating to trade effluent produced by commercial and industrial customers, either discharged to sewer or imported to treatment plants by tanker.

    Operational interventions helped reduce significant loads to treatment, allowing Irish water to reduce related treatment, sludge and energy management costs and to minimise the chance of related prosecutions for pollution events.

    A key part of this work was working with the EPA to use specialist and expert knowledge to reduce environmental risks from large companies that handled industrial chemicals which were corroding IW assets and causing environmental damage.

    Client: Irish Water
    Location: Various
    Value: €5.5 Million