Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
7325BEPG-JAN-CTY
Aims
To provide a thorough grounding in river basin management within the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD).
To explore the WFD, the development of monitoring programmes within water bodies, the 'programmes of measures' for them and River Basin management Plans.
To consider the sustainable use of water and critically evaluate developments in measures for sustainable use.
To explore current developments in pollution control and the determination of consents for the discharge of polluted water and water impoundment.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Historical Perspective - the development of the WFD.
Legal and institutional framework - the detail of the WFD, identification of the River Basin Districts (RBDs): the River Basin District Management Planning process: arrangements for management of international RBDs.
WFD daughter directives: groundwater quality and priority substances. Other European and national policy and legislation on the control of the water pollution.
Assessment of Current Status - determination of the characteristics of the RBDs, economic analysis of water use, Protected Areas and the identification of 'heavily modified water bodies' and 'artificial water bodies'. Assessment of risk of failure to meet 'good status' under WFD. The assessment of ecological status.
Hydraulics - calculations of water depths and velocities. Energy and hydraulic jumps. Froude number. River modelling.
Pollution sources, impacts and pollution prevention - natural variations in water quality. Pollution causes, fate of pollutants in the aquatic environment; 'oxygen sag'; eutrophication; Impact of toxic substances: Pollution prevention measures.
Water Use - assessment of the impact of water abstraction: the abstraction licensing process. The economic analysis of water use.
Setting Environmental Standards - the WFD classification system, the classification of water bodies in RBDs.
Discharge Consents - the process of application, consideration, consultation and granting of consents to discharge. Public registers, prosecution procedures. The control of trade effluent discharges.
Monitoring Programmes - determination of WFD physicochemical and biological parameters to assess the status of water bodies: risk assessment studies.
Gap Analysis - Determination of the differences between the existing status of water bodies comprising the RBDs and that needed to meet Directive requirements.
The Programme of measures. The River Basin District Management Plan. River Engineering works and their impacts. Interaction between rivers and groundwater.
Module Overview:
This module provides a thorough grounding in river basin management within the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). It explores the WFD, the development of monitoring programmes within water bodies, the 'programmes of measures' for them and River Basin Management Plans. It will:
This module provides a thorough grounding in river basin management within the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). It explores the WFD, the development of monitoring programmes within water bodies, the 'programmes of measures' for them and River Basin Management Plans. It will:
- consider the sustainable use of water and critically evaluate developments in measures for sustainable use
- explore current developments in pollution control and the determination of consents for the discharge of polluted water and water impoundment
- provide a thorough grounding in holistic river basin management and the application of the Water Framework Directive
Additional Information:The module provides a thorough grounding in holistic river basin management and
the application of the Water Framework Directive.
Assessments
Centralised Exam