| Specific improvements
| Enhancements planned before December 2005
| Assumed
capital
expenditure
(£m)
2000-05
[2000-06]
| Assumed
additional
operating
expenditure
(£m/year)
2004-05
[2000-06]
|
| Works required to reduce over-abstraction |
| |
|
(a) at designated sites under Habitats and Birds Directives
| Improvements to treatment works with a design flow of 210Ml/day sufficient to serve <1 million consumers24 projects
| 50
[50] | 1.0
[1.0]
|
| (b) affecting other SSSIs
| Improvements to treatment works with a design flow of 70Ml/day sufficient to serve <1 million consumers20 projects
| 10
[10] | <1.0
[<1.0]
|
(c) other priority sites (low flow rivers)
| Improvements to treatment works with a design flow of 880Ml/day sufficient to serve 3 million consumers37 projects
| 60
[60] | <1.0
[<1.0]
|
| Installing high quality sewage treatment infrastructure to comply with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 18.6 million population equivalent902 sites
| 1,310
[1,310] | 72
[82]
|
| Works to comply with mandatory standards under the Bathing Waters Directive and further improvements to assist achieving Blue Flag status at key holiday resorts
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 8.0 million population equivalent75 sites
| 230
[230] | 6
[6]
|
| Improvements to comply with imperative standards and endeavour to observe guideline standards for:
| |
| |
| (a) Freshwater Fish Directive
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 4.4 million population equivalent245 sites
| 250
[250] | 4
[4]
|
| (b) Shellfish Waters Directive
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 1.8 million population equivalent48 sites
| 50
[50] | 1
[1]
|
| Other improvements to effluent discharges |
| |
|
(a) at designated sites under the Habitats and Birds Directives
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 0.8 million population equivalent33 sites
| 20
[20] | 1
[1]
|
| (b) affecting other SSSIs
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 0.1 million population equivalent34 sites
| 20
[20] | 1
[1]
|
(c) for compliance with Surface Water Abstraction Directive
| Improvements to works with a capacity of 0.1 million population equivalent4 sites
| 10
[10] | <1
[<1]
|
| Improvements to unsatisfactory intermittent discharges (including combined sewer overflows)
| Improvements to 4.682 unsatisfactory overflows
| 1,700
[1,760] | 6
[8]
|
| Improvements in the disposal of sewage sludge
| |
| |
(i)
Phasing out of raw sludge to land by end of 2001
| |
| |
(ii)
Restrictions on treated sewage sludge to land
| |
| |
(iii) Disposal of additional sewage sludge
| A total of 1,380 thousand tonnes dry solids sludge disposed of satisfactorily
| 800
[800] | 46
[46]
|
| Improvements to reduce current shortfall on River Quality Objectives
| 2,947km river protected from deterioration, 1,004km river improved487 schemes
| 490
[500] | 6
[12]
|
| To meet demands for First Time Sewerage and other requirements
| Provision of sewerage to a population equivalent of 0.8 million315 schemes
| 240
[240] | 11
[11]
|
| Totals | | 5,240
[5,310]
| 155
[173] |
