Presentation entitled ‘Sustainable Wastewater Management in Rural Housing Developments’ given on the 28th January, 2008 at the ESAI run Environ Colloquium 2008. For rural developments, it is frequently the responsibility of private developers to identify a suitable wastewater treatment system to treat the effluent. Frequently, the capacity of adjacent streams and rivers to accept further treated effluent is reached and a discharge of treated effluent to groundwater is the only viable option necessitating the processing of a Discharge Licence Application and the carrying out of a groundwater assessment to assess the assimilative capacity of the underlying aquifer. Under the Nitrates Directive, the quality of treated wastewater being discharged to ground is of paramount importance in conjunction with the background nitrate concentration. This presentation was 0.3 hours in duration and hosted approximately 200 delegates

1. ESAI Colloquium, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Co. Louth, Ireland Sustainable Wastewater Management in Rural Housing Developments 3 rd February 2008 Padraic Mulroy, Managing Director Mulroy Environmental

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53. CONCLUSIONS (I.E. EXPERIENCE TO-DATE) 1 Background 2 Guidelines 3 Legislation 4 Infrastructural Deficit 5 Discharge Licence Application Process 6 WWTP Solution 7 Case Study – Site ‘X’ 8 Conclusions