NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL (SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY CONTROL) REGULATIONS, 2010

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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL (SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY CONTROL) REGULATIONS, 2010

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL (SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY CONTROL) REGULATIONS, 2011

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

REGULATION:

PART ASSURFACE WATER QUALITY CONTROL

1.       Purpose.

2.       Application.

3.       Water Uses to be Protected.

4.       General Provisions for Surface Waters.

5.       Water Quality Standards.

6.       Activities in Violation of Water Quality Standards.

7.       Activities in Further Degradation of Low Quality Waters.

8.       Anti-degradation Activities.

9.       Mixing Zones.

10.     Restrictions to New Discharges

11.     Effluent Limited and Water Quality Limited Waters.

12.     Total Maximum Daily Loads in Water Quality Limited Waters.

13.     Prohibited Discharges.

14.     Approvals and Permits Required for Regulated Activities.

15.     Application for Permit.

16.     Obligations of a Permit Folder.

17.     Records to be kept by Permit Holder.

18.     Modification, Suspension or Revocation of Approval.

PART B-GROUND WATER QUALITY CONTROL

19.     Purpose.

20.     Injection Wells, Landfills and Burrow Pits.

21.     Standards.

22.     Application of Standards,

23.     Prohibited Activities.

24.     Control of Over Abstraction.

25.     Authorized Activities.

26.     Protection.

27.     Exemption.

28.     Notification of Existence of Class V Well.

29.     Record keeping

30.     Corrective and Closure Action.

31.     Monitoring

PART C-ENFORCEMENT

32.     General Action on Water Use.

33.     Improvement Notice.

PART DOFFENCES AND PENALTIES

34.     Offences and Penalties,

PAKT E-MISCELLANEOUS

35.     Interpretations.

36.     Citation.

Schedules.

Schedule I : Physico-Chemical Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Surface Water.

Schedule II : Chernical Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Surface Water.

Schedule III : Biological Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Surface Water.

Schedule IV : Target and Intervention Values for Micro Pollutants for Groundwater.

Schedule V : Limit for Substances and Characteristics Affecting the  Acceptability of Groundwater for Domestic Use. Schedule VI : Microbiological Limits for Groundwater.

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL (SURFACE AND GROUND  WATER QUALITY CONTROL) REGULATIONS, 2011

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 34 of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act 2007 and all other powers enabling me in that beball, I, ME JOHN Onky, Honourable Minister, the Ministry of Environment hereby make the following Regulations :

(Commencement)                              [28th Day of April, 2011]

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