Water Quality - Sewage Treatment in the UK: Sensitive Areas
Introduction
These pages provide an accessible formal record and maps of all water bodies in the UK currently identified by Government as Sensitive Areas under the statutory instruments transposing the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
They set out the statutory requirements for identifying such water bodies, indicate why each of the water bodies are identified as Sensitive Areas, UK obligations under the legislation, and what this means, in terms of improvement of treatment at sewage works to protect these areas from the adverse effects of sewage discharges.
These pages and related information can also be accessed from links at websites of government authorities in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (see Further information sources for their websites).
See also Sewage Treatment in the UK: Implementation of the EC Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, published in 2002.
Page last modified: 28 September 2007
Page published 21 October 2002