Your guide to who’s who r- - I T , ' E n v i r o n m e n t A g e n c y Introduction Our aim is to protect and enhance the environment in a sustainable manner. We will work in partnership w ith local authorities and other interested parties. W e will be business-like and make a real, positive difference to the environment for the benefit of the whole community. This will be achieved by: • Preventing and controlling pollution of land, water Berwick Swans and air, the latter in association with local authorities; • Contributing to the cleaning up of contaminated land; • Protecting people and property from flooding and providing effective flood warnings; • Maintaining, developing and improving salmon, trout, freshwater and eel fisheries; North East Region • Furthering nature conservation; • Facilitating water-associated recreation; Holy Island • Providing an effective emergency service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to respond to flooding, pollution incidents and fish kills. The Environment Agency has eight regions covering England and Wales. The North East Region stretches Northumbria Area from the Scottish Border in the north to the Humber Dales Area Estuary in the south, from the Pennines in the west to Ridings Area the North Sea in the east. Your guide to who's who in the Northumbria Area may from time to time need to AREA MANAGER - • Tyne and Wear - be varied. Compliance with the RICHARD CRESSWELL Tony Farthing authorisation is continuous and Enforcement - requires frequent inspections to Heads the Northumbria team • Durham - ensure conditions are being responsible for the whole range Peter Toffrey of activities under Environment adhered to. Responsible for • Northumberland - Agency control. authorising and registering the Karen Heatley keeping and disposal of • Tyne and Wear - radioactive substances, limiting WASTE MANAGEMENT Martin Lancaster the quantity of material stored Waste Strategy and controlling releases to the Manager - & Information - environment. Ashley Cooper • Durham - Pollution Inspector- Responsible for ensuring that Peter Thompson • Wear Valley, Easington, waste is properly managed and • Northumberland - Sunderland, disposed of in order to avoid David Fellows North Tyneside, harm to people or pollution • Tyne and Wear - Newcastle, Gateshead - of the environment. This is John Norman ton achieved by legal controls Martin Whitworth including the registration of Transfrontier Shipments • Castle Morpeth, waste brokers and carriers, and Special Wastes - Chester-le-Street, licensing of waste treatment Stuart Carrick Wansbeck, Tynedale, and disposal sites, the provision Alan Young Durham, Gateshead - of guidance and advice, Registration of Waste Bill Miller inspection and monitoring of Brokers and Carriers- • Blyth Valley, South waste operations and taking Graham Gardner Tyneside, Derwentside, enforcement action where Berwick, Alnwick, North necessary. INTEGRATED Tyneside - POLLUTION CONTROL Waste Regulation Officers - Eric Burkes • Durham - Manager - Team Coordinator- John Fairey Andrew Harrison Marie Stapleton • Northumberland - Responsible for the regulation Technical Administrator - Sean Pruce of major polluting processes for /ulie Corps • Tyne and Wear - the more complex industrial Alan Holmes sites. Authorisations are issued Waste Management for processes setting conditions Licensing - for compliance specified for • Durham - Integrated Pollution Control (IPC). Jim Scott This sets out release limits to air, • Northumberland - water and land. The authorisation Ian Ha swell will require improvements and Blyth Power Station Your guide to who's who in the Northumbria Area provided to ensure adequate Recreation Officer - O PE R ATIO N S notice is given of likely flooding Barbara Pike in the Area. Hatchery Manager - Manager - Project Engineer - Peter Cray Ray Innes-Anderson Tony Hardwick Responsible for teams carrying District Engineer - WATER RESOURCES out emergency and river • Tyne and Wear - & Q U A LITY engineering maintenance in the Kim Andrew Manager - Area. Provides 24 hour • Northumberland - Howard Taylor response teams to deal with Alan Cadas pollution and flooding Responsible for protecting and Area Emergency emergencies. improving the water quality Coordinator- and water resources in the Contracts Engineer - Paul Dodds Area. Ensures environmental Harry Harrison protection through pollution Works Agent - FISHERIES, RECREATION, prevention advice, backed up CONSERVATION Peter Angus by a monitoring programme, AND NAVIGATION and enforcement where necessary. Balances water FLOOD DEFENCE Manager - Godfrey Williams abstractions to meet the needs of users whilst safeguarding the Responsible for the fisheries, Manager - water environment. Ron Watson recreation, conservation, and biological interests of the Area. Principal Hydrogeologist - Responsible for ensuring protection Maintains, improves and Martin Kershaw of people and property from develops fisheries throughout Principal Water Quality flooding from rivers and the sea the Area. Manages biological Planner - by providing an efficient and work in the Area's rivers, estuaries, Malcolm Helm effective flood defence service marine and coastal environments. Principal Technical Officer - in the Area. Promotes recreation and Eddie Douglas The department exercises conservation policies. Environmental Protection general supervision over all Principal Ecology Officer - Principal - matters relating to flood defence, John Orr • Northumberland - issuing consents under Byelaws, Senior Ecologists Alan Hunter Land Drainage and Water • Fisheries Science - Resources legislation. As well as • Tyne - Karen Miller managing watercourse Jim Lancaster • Freshwater Biology - maintenance programmes, • Wear - Anne Lewis maintenance of existing defences Steve Brooker and capital improvement • Conservation - schemes to reduce the incidence Colin Blundel of flooding, a flood warning and Area Fisheries Officer - flood forecasting service is Ivan Swaile NORTHUMBRIA AREA KEY FACTS Area 7,394 km2 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty 2 National Parks 1 Sites of Special Scientific Interest 200 Environmentally Sensitive Areas 1 Population 2.0 million Annual Rainfall 600-1,800 mm Rivers (monitored for quality) 1,997 km Rivers (for flood defence purposes) 1,005 km Length of Coastline 140 km EC Designated NEWCASTLE- tTH TYNESIDE Bathing Beaches 25 CARLI TYNEDALE UPON-TYNE N SOUTH TYNESIDE Water Abstraction Licences 350 SUNDERLAND Discharge Consents 3,700 CHESTER-LE- STREET Major Industrial DERWENTSHIRE Processes 95 EASINGTON Sites Using, Storing or Disposing of Radioactive Waste 200 Registered Waste Carriers 2,582 Scale in km Waste Management Sites 315 beautiful countryside in the UK. natural heritage and achieving Registered Waste Exemptions 594 With a population of over two economic development. million, the Area is one of There are approximately 200 contrasts. An inheritance of Sites of Special Scientific Northumbria Area stretches industrial change has left Interest (SSSIs), and a number from the Scottish border to the contamination whilst the rural of Areas of Outstanding Wear Valley. It includes the areas are becoming increasingly Natural Beauty. The catchments of the Rivers Coquet, important for tourism and leisure. Northumberland coast, from Tyne and Wear and contains It is important to achieve a Berwick to Druridge Bay, is some of the most rugged and balance between protecting our designated as a Heritage Coast. PLANNING & BUSINESS SERVICES Manager - Northumbria Area John Hogger Office: Responsible for the coordination Tyneside House, and production of Local Newcastle Business Park, Environment Agency Plans, Newcastle Upon Tyne processing of planning NE4 7AR. consultations and liaison with Tel: 0191 203 4000 Fax: 0191 203 4004 local planning authorities. Minicom: 01904 692297 Provides financial information General Enquiry Service: and effective administration in 0645 333 111 Alnwick Castle support of Area activities. Responsible for ensuring delivery of effective customer services and the dissemination of information within and outside Regional Office: of the Agency. Coordinates Rivers House, effective business planning in Park Square South, order to promote good Leeds LSI 2QG. Tel: 0113 244 0191 business practice and monitors Fax: 0113 246 1889 River Wear, Durham performance in the Area. Minicom: 01904 692297 Business Accountant - Nick Hodkinson Business Support Officer - Isabel! Eastwood Planning Liaison Officer - Suzanne Hall Catchment Planning Officer (Environment *^eacy (Local Management Plans) - Tom Warburton Information Centre Head Office Class No.SA.. Accession No ...6.^.vT. 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