Stakeholder Events

UKTAG has held the following events

Stakeholder Events 2007

• 23 Nov 2007 - Birmingham - Mitigation measures defining good ecological potential for Heavily Modified Water Bodies (HMWBs) and Artificial Modified Water Bodies (AWBs)

The workshop provided a summary of the requirements to set the ecological objective of Good Ecological Potential (GEP) for HMWBs and AWBs under the Water Framework Directive.

The workshop informed stakeholders of the trialling work that has been carried out by the sectors (Ports, Navigation, Water Resources, Hydropower and Flood Risk Management) and UKTAG, to classify whether water bodies are at or below GEP.

The workshop provided stakeholders with:

      -  an overview of the sector specific mitigation measures, and their role in  classifying GEP

      -  outputs from ongoing trialling of the method to define GEP

      -  sector specific examples of how GEP is defined

The following presentations were made:

• Introduction and close
• UKTAG HMWB classification
• Flood Risk Management
• Ports and Navigation
• Inland Navigation
• Hydropower
• Water Supply

The workshop presented the draft mitigation measures that are currently being trialled for Inland Navigation, Ports, Flood Risk Management and Impoundments for Water Supply and Hydropower.The draft list can be found here.

• Notes from the GEP Workshop

The final UKTAG report can be accessed below.

• Guidance on the Classification of Ecological Potential for Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies