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Local Environment Agency Plan EA SOUTH WEST LEAPS local environment agency plan DORSET STOUR SECOND ANNUAL REVIEW January 1999 - December 1999 r ^BIANDFORD W1MBOI BOURNEMOUTH Additional Copies Further copies of this Annual Review can be obtained from: The LEAP Team The Environment Agency ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Rivers House Sunrise Business Park n a t i o n a l l i b r a r y & Higher Shaftesbury Road inform ation se rv ic e Blandford Forum h e a d o f f ic e Dorset DT11 8ST Rio House. Waterside Drive. Aziec West. Almondsbury. Tel: 01258 456080 Bristol BS32 4UD Or by e-mail to: swessex.LEAPs@environment-age General Enquiries For general information about the work of the Environment Agency, or information about a specific matter, please contact our Customer Contact Team at the Blandford Office. Tel: 01258 456080 The Internet For general information about the Environment Agency please visit our website at: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk Environment Agency Copyright Waiver This report is intended to be used widely and may be quoted, copied or reproduced in any way, provided that the extracts are not quoted out of context and that due acknowledgement is given to the Environment Agency. Maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey 1 :50,000 scale map by the Environment Agency with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number 031 77C Published July 2000 Publication code: SW-07/00-0.65k-D-BFOG ENVIRONMENT AGENCY 093160 CONTENTS Contents 1 Introduction...................................................................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Who are the Environment Agency?......................................................................................................................................................1 1.2 Funding and the Environment Agency.................................................................................................................................................1 1.3 Local Environment Agency Plans........................................................................................................................................................1 1.4 Our Environmental Strategy.................................................................................. ...............................................................................2 1.5 Activity tables........................................................................................................................................................................................3 1.6 Fund-raising and partnerships...............................................................................................................................................................3 1.7 Overview of the LEAP area.................................................................................................................................................................. 3 2 A better environment through partnership..............................................................................................................................................6 2.1 Working with regional government...................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Working with local planning authorities............................................................................................................................................. 6 2.3 Coastal Zone Management Plans......................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Shoreline Management Plans................................................................................................................................................................7 2.5 Working with Wessex Water, and Bournemouth & West Hampshire Water Company...................................................................8 2.6 Local Agenda 21.....................................................................................................................................................................................9 2.7 Working with farmers and landowners.................................................................................................................................................9 2.8 Working with business........................................................................................................................................................................ 10 2.9 Working with fisheries organisations............................................................... ................................................................................. 10 2.10 Conservation.........................................................................................................................................................................................11 2.11 Development of recreation.................................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.12 Education.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.13 Make a Diflerence environmental improvements............................................................................................................................. 12 2.14 Common Ground..................................................................................................................................................................................12 2.15 Public Registers and access to environmental information..............................................................................................................13 3 Progress overview....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1 Progress overview.................................................................................................................. ............................................................. 14 3.2 Priorities................................................................................................................................................................................................14 4 Activity tables............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 4.1 The setting and maintenance of water quality targets.......................................................................................................................15 4.2 Impact of agriculture on water quality...............................................................................................................................................17 4.3 Impact of sewage and sewerage on water quality............................................................................................................................. 19 4.4 Impact of development on urban rivers...................................................... .......................................................................................21 4.5 Contaminated land............................................................................................................................................................................... 23 4.6 Developing strategies for sustainable waste management................................................................................................................24 4.7 Maintaining our rivers and flood defences........................................................................................................................................ 27 4.8 The provision of flood warning and emergency response................................................................................................................28 4.9 Potential effects of climate change on the environment................................................................................................................... 30 4.10 Impact of public water supply abstraction on the River Allen......................................................................................................... 30 4.11 Potential impact of water supply abstractions on the River Stour at Longham (Femdown)........................................................ 32 4.12 Impact of public water supply abstractions on the Tarrant.......................................................................... ................................... 33 4.13 Constraints on fish populations................................................................ .......................................................................................... 35 4.14 Loss and decline in the value of riverine and floodplain habitat.....................................................................................................37 4.15 Protection of ecologically important habitats and species................................................................................................................38
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