discharge license

Hence the Environment Protection (Marine) Policy was introduced in 1994 to enable environmental monitoring and improvement programmes as a condition of all discharge licenses.

For the first time since overflows started more than 30 years ago, there is to be a discharge license imposed on Power & Water that dictates the quantity and quality of overflows, including a deadline for when dry-weather overflows must permanently cease.

The Environment Agency is able grant CSO sewage discharge license to industrial companies but (i) permission the owner of the foreshore is needed, and (ii) the applicant accepts insurance responsibility for any harm coming to a beach user as a result.

Wouldn't Kill the Fish But the State Department of Environmental Protection has opposed granting a waste discharge license to the company because water released by the plant into the Androscoggin would be too hot in summer for the river's native brook trout.