Upload
others
View
1
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Good Management Practices in Forestry
Reducing Diffuse Pollution from Forestry
Related Activities in Galloway and
Eskdalemuir Forests
John Gorman
Senior Environment Protection Officer
Project Aims
Improve Communication links with State and
private forestry – liaison meetings
Workshops, awareness days, training & site
visits, shared learning
Site inspections –clearfelling, restocking,
drainage works, road construction, quarries,
pesticide/herbicide/fertilisers applications
Help develop Best Practice Guide for forestry
activities via DPMAG
Main Problems
Siltation from ground preparation, cultivation,
harvesting and restocking
Contaminated run-off from roadways
Historical drainage systems
Standing sales
National disease obligations versus FWG5
Quarry runoff
Natural Regen
Waste
What is Diffuse Pollution
River Cree at Bargrennan
3.5
4
4.5
5
5.5
6
6.5
7
7.5
8
8.5
10-M
AY
-1956
06-M
AR
-1959
10-JA
N-1961
06-O
CT
-1964
02-JU
N-1969
07-A
UG
-1973
13-D
EC
-1977
26-JA
N-1982
28-N
OV
-1984
28-JU
L-1986
10-M
AR
-1988
19-JA
N-1990
10-JA
N-1992
04-F
EB
-1994
23-JU
N-1995
09-A
PR
-1997
16-D
EC
-1998
31-JU
L-2001
05-A
PR
-2004
23-O
CT
-2005
29-M
AR
-2007
04-S
EP
-2008
20-A
PR
-2010
30-N
OV
-2011
23-JA
N-2014
pH
U
nits pH
Harmful effects
Chorionase enzyme
River Cree at Bargrennan
3.5
4
4.5
5
5.5
6
6.5
7
7.5
8
8.5
18-JA
N-2000
29-N
OV
-2000
18-F
EB
-2002
10-F
EB
-2003
03-F
EB
-2004
02-S
EP
-2004
08-D
EC
-2004
04-O
CT
-2005
20-M
AR
-2006
31-A
UG
-2006
29-M
AR
-2007
02-O
CT
-2007
24-M
AR
-2008
06-O
CT
-2008
02-A
PR
-2009
10-N
OV
-2009
17-JU
N-2010
24-N
OV
-2010
20-O
CT
-2011
15-M
AR
-2012
15-N
OV
-2012
07-N
OV
-2013
pH
U
nits pH
Harmful effects
Chorionase enzyme
Forwarder brash track decomp
Timber Stack near Burn
Forestry Inspections Summary – February 2015
Total Inspections 216
Compliant 159 [74%]
Non Compliant 57 [26%]
Pollution Incidents 48
GBR20 32
GBR21 46
GBR22 6
DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE !!
CHRONOLOGICAL DRAINAGE REVIEW
FWG2, 1991 [23 Years ago] prevent roadside drains discharging direct to watercourses; where unavoidable provide silt traps and maintain them regularly.
FWG3, 1993 [21 Years ago] Roadside drains carry high sediment load must not be allowed to directly connect to watercourses, re-direct to buffer areas
FWG4, 2003 [12 Years ago] Old drain clearing presents high risk of pollution, drains should be realigned to ensure volume flows onto vegetated ground and NOT into watercourses. Existing drains should not drain directly into watercourses
FWG5, 2011 [3 Years ago] Realign existing drains, avoid watercourse connections, redirect to buffer zones
Historical roadside ditches
- Disconnect
Solution – Sump and Natural filter
Receptor protected
Disconnection
FC Operations Note 25 - Roadside drain
Silt Trap
Cut off
Culvert
Filter
Zone
Disconnect
Communication
Poor Communication & Site
Responsibilities
Poor Crossing Point
Culvert Blocked
New Grip Drain for spring water
Dry Crossing Point
Contractor Competency
Dalwhat Burn
Dalwhat Burn 1Km D/Stream
Dalwhat Burn 4Km d/stream
Galloway Flailing
What & Why
Working Quarries
High Pollution Risks
Poor Rock Quality & Gross Pollution
Iron & Unknown Leachate
Quarry Runoff
Roadside Ditch Sump
Grass Swale Soakaway
Irish pipe bridges
Polbae IPB Before
Polbae IPB After
Waste
Contractor Waste Dumped in
Woods
Contractor Waste behind Caravan
Good & Bad Forestry 1
Good & Bad Forestry 2
Good & Bad Forestry 3
Terram Trials
Terram in RSD
SUMMARY
A Good Management Practice “Champion”
Competency attainment for contractors
Contracts – Duties & Responsibilities
Urgent need for Do’s and Don’t’s Guide
Good Quality Site Pre-Planning, Work Plans-Pull out flow chart of key decisions & tick list
Themes:
[1] Clear lines of communication
[2] Improved site management
[3] Pollution prevention NOT remediation
[4] Guidelines are’nt seasonal
[5] Carrot and Stick
[6] Scotland’s wet, Plan for it
“The bitterness of poor
Quality is remembered long
after the sweet taste of low
price has faded from
memory”
Aldo Gucci
“Quality is doing it right
when no-one is looking”
Henry T Ford