Welcome to the Western River Basin District Project
Click here (or on the image above) for your copy of the Draft River Basin Management Plan, the Western RBD Habitats Assessment Report and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Report.
WRBD Water Information Days - Public Consultation
National Water Information Days - Public Consultation
See www.wfdireland.ie for further supporting documentation on the draft River Basin Management Plans.
Comments from Public Meetings on SWMI 28/8/08
WRBD Digest of Submissions and Responses 29/08/08
The next step in the process
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive will ensure that consideration is given to the environment in implementing the Water Framework Directive in the island of Ireland. The first step in the SEA process involved a screening step which identified that Strategic Environmental Assessment would be required for the River Basin Management Plans and Programmes of Measures. This Draft Consultation Scoping Report is the next step in the process. This document establishes the scope of works involved for the Environmental Assessment.
Please click here for your copy of the Consultation Scoping Document
We would appreciate your comments on this scoping of the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Western River Basin District River Basin Management Plan and Programme of Measures.
Schedule of Public Information Meetings
"Water Matters Booklet, for your copy, please click here."
Western RBD Legislative Review
Background Documents on the Water Matters Report:
This project is part of Ireland’s commitment to the
European Union Water Framework Directive. This Directive sets out a framework with
clear objectives to ensure that all European waters reach at least good status by 2015.
The Directive applies to Europe’s rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal waters and groundwaters and involves
a new approach to cross border co-operation between countries and within countries to ensure that water
management does not stop at borders.
In this context the island of Ireland is divided into eight river basin districts, one of which is the Western River Basin District.
The Western River Basin District includes parts of Clare, Galway, Galway City, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon
and Sligo and extends over some 12,000 square kilometres, with over 5,600 lakes, 14,200 kilometres of rivers,
105 groundwater bodies and an extensive marine and estuarine area.
Between now and 2015 the local authorities in the Western River Basin District, together with the
European Union and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government will be working together to ensure
that a management plan is put in place to help protect and improve all waters in the Western River Basin District
for future generations.
