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Catchments Newsletter – Spring 2019.


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The Spring 2019 Catchments Newsletter looks at:

Waters and Communities news from around the country:
- TidyTowns Waters and Communities Award and 2018 winners, Abbey County Galway
- Community Information Meetings in Priority Areas for Action
- Dublin: The River Camac tells a story
- Galway: Loughrea Lake birdwatching and beach clean up
- Leitrim: anglers protecting small streams
- Longford: primary school kids learning about their water and wildlife
- Roscommon: telling the story of the Portrunny catchment
- Wexford: schoolchildren working together to understand their local streams and get their community involved
- Pint of Science; from labs, to pubs and cafes
Public consultation: timetable and work programme for Ireland’s River Basin Management Plan 2022-2027
Public engagement and environmental policy
Ireland’s woodlands and forests: a renewed focus under the second cycle of the River Basin Management Plan
Measuring the impact of the 2018 summer drought on river lakes and flows
Donation of EPA hydrometric equipment to Engineers Without Borders
Dingle Hub: real-time remote sensing to allow continuous water quality monitoring
Research projects:
- Acclimatize – addressing pollution in urban and rural bathing waters
- EU SWIM Project prepares for the 2019 bathing water Season
- Small streams and their importance in Ireland
- The WISDOM Project: learning from Group Water Schemes and connecting water, infrastructure, and people
Book reviews:
- Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm
- Karst of Ireland: Landscape, Hydrology, Methods

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EPA Catchments Unit

Administrator

The EPA Catchments Unit is based in Dublin, and the team is involved with catchment science, chemistry, ecology, hydromorphology, modelling, Geographic Information Systems and planning. We work with the wider EPA, all of our local authorities, the Local Authority Waters and Communities Office, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, and other public bodies and Departments to ensure we have the best available data and information about our catchments.

Who is involved?
Quite simply, everyone in Ireland has a role to play. This can be from something as simple as making sure you don’t pollute your local stream, or a local community working together to establish a Rivers Trust to enhance the rivers and lakes in their area, to a Government Department or Agency helping a Minister implement a new policy to help protect and enhance all our water bodies.

This website has been developed and is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, and is a collaboration between the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Local Authority Waters Programme.

Local Authority Waters Programme

The Local Authority Waters Programme coordinates the efforts of local authorities and other public bodies in the implementation of the River Basin Management Plan, and supports local community and stakeholder involvement in managing our natural waters, for everyone’s benefit.

Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA is responsible for coordinating the monitoring, assessment and reporting on the status of our 4,842 water bodies, looking at trends and changes, determining which waterbodies are at risk and what could be causing this, and drafting environmental objectives for each.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Department is responsible for making sure that the right policies, regulations and resources are in place to implement the Water Framework Directive, and developing a River Basin Management Plan and Programme of Measures to protect and restore our waters.