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Compliance Assessment  Report ID:
Report (CAR1) form
I/080326/QP3438MC

  Name of site
Fleetwood WwTW

United Utilities Water Plc
Operator/
Permit  QP3438MC
Officer
Tom Glyn-Jones
Date
26/03/2008

N'th West (C) - Preston
Area/offi
Time
Event
09:30 / 11:30
X   Routine      Incident

Activity
Non LF/Incineration Waste
disp
in/out

Assessment
X   Site
   Audit
    Check
    Report / data
    Procedure review

Site life status:  X   Operational
    Pre-
    Post-operational

Which part(s) of the permit were  PPC Activity, Sludge Processing Plant
assessed?

Compliance assessment summary
Key to completion:
A = Assessed/Assessed in part (no evidence of non-compliance)ATL =
Approach to limit

NA   N t A
li
bl             1  2  3  4   CCS
t 1 4 b
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N N t
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a) Permitted activities
1
A







b) Infrastructure
1
A    2
N    3
N    4
A    5
A
c) General management
1
N    2
N    3
N    4
A


d)  Incident management
1
A    2
N




e) Emissions
1
A    2
NA    3
NA    4
N    5
N
f) Amenity
1
A    2
N    3
N    4
N    5
A
g)  Monitoring and records, maintenance
and reporting
1
A    2
N    3
N    4
A


h) Resources efficiency
1
N    2
N




The breaches indicated above may constitute one or more offences. You should take immediate action to rectify each breach
and return to compliance. You should prevent any repetition of the breaches. Breaches of conditions as indicated above can result
NB. IF THERE IS A BREACH, ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WILL HAVE AN ‘X’ PLACED IN THE BOX
  At present we do not intend to prosecute you for the above offences
We will now consider what

however you are warned that this may change if further information

Enforcement action is

comes to light. THIS IS A SITE WARNING
appropriate.
Review of Directly Applicable Legislation :   Key:            A = Assessed, N = Not assessed, NA = Not Applicable, C1, C2, C3, C4 = CCS
cat 1–4 breach.
A

Report delivery
    copy left on
    posted  X   emailed      faxed    04/04/2008
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Inspection conducted of sludge processing and odour abatement plant. Joint inspection conducted with Neil Martin Wyre
BC EHO of WwTw outside permitted installation boundary.

Odour noticed when entered site, odour detected around HGV parked outside sludge processing building. Informed
treatment manager of odour suspected to be from sludge processing plant. Informed by treatment manager that the
odour was attributed to the parked HGV carrying sludge cake. No odour noticed at the site entrance gate, de odouriser
system in operation around sludge processing building.

No sludge processed during inspection due to low volume of sludge from the waste water treatment process.

Please note that compliance with improvement conditions IP3 is required by the 30/04/08.

Part 6 of the Programme Delivery Plan includes a 'finalised OMP to be included as part of the PPC permit' as wel  as 'agreed
odour monitoring, measurement and reporting process to meet requirements of the OMP / PPC Permit conditions.' Please
submit this information as soon as possible.

Requested regular updates from the treatment manager of progress with the programme delivery plan to be sent via e-
mail so that any progress can be tracked, assessed and compliance assessed against the permit.

Recipient’s name or position within company
Ian Evans Treatment Manager

CCS record

number
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Notes to the recipient
  2
A non-compliance which has a

This compliance report form may highlight non-compliance
potentially
with your permit or directly applicable legislation as observed
significant environmental effect
by the Environment Agency officer.
  3
A non-compliance which has a

This does not relieve the site operator of their responsibility to
potentially
ensure that they comply with the permit and to prevent
minor environmental effect
pollution of the environment. You are also reminded that:
4
A non-compliance which has no

  you should comply with the conditions of the permit at all
potential
times
environmental effect
  compliance with the permit does not remove your

obligation to comply with other legislative provisions which
may apply.
Understanding the Compliance Assessment Summary

a) Permitted  1  Specified by permit
ti iti

b) Infrastructure
1
  Engineering for prevention and
  control of emissions

2  Closure and decommissioning

3  Site drainage engineering (clean
and foul)

4  Containment of stored materials

5  Plant and equipment

c) General
1  Staff competency/training

t
2

Management system and
  operating procedures

3  Materials acceptance

4  Storage, handling, labelling and
segregation

d) Incident
1  Site security

t

2  Accident, emergency and

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i

e) Emissions  1  Air

2  Land and groundwater

3  Surface water

4  Sewer

5  Waste

f) Amenity
1  Odour

2  Noise

3  Dust/fibres/particulates and litter

4  Pests, birds and scavengers

5  Deposits on road

g) Monitoring  1  Monitoring of emissions and
and records,
2
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Records of activity, site
maintenance
and
    di

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  reporting
3  Maintenance records

4  Reporting and notification to the
  Environment Agency

h) Resource  efficiency  1  Efficient use of raw materials

2  Energy efficiency

The term ‘permit’ for the purposes of this form includes:
licences,
authorisations and consents.
________________________________________________________
Understanding your non-compliance scores
Non-compliance findings are classified using our published
Compliance Classification Scheme, (CCS).
This scheme categorises breaches of permit conditions based
on their potential
for environmental impact as shown below. If you wish to
discuss further any comments made by the officer on this
form, contact your local area office or for more details of the
CCS scheme, see the Environment Agency’s website or
contact your local office.

CCS category  Description

  1
A non-compliance which has a

potentially
major environmental effect
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Corrective action
Customer charter – What can I do if I disagree with the
We have various options to ensure that you correct actual or
compliance assessment report?
potential
If you are unable to resolve the issue with your site officer, you
non-compliance:
should firstly discuss the matter with the officer’s line manager,
  We may advise on corrective actions, verbally or in writing
Area Environment Manager or Area Manager. If you wish to
  We may require you to take specific actions, by letter or by
raise your dispute further, this can be done through our
issuing a notice
official Complaints and Commendations procedure phone
our general enquiry number 08708 506506 (Mon to Fri 08.00–
  We may require you to review your procedures or
18.00) and ask for the Customer Contact team, alternatively
management systems
you can send an email to enquiries@environment-
  We may change some of the conditions of your permit
agency.gov.uk. If, after fol owing our Complaints and
  We may decide to undertake a ful  review of your permit
Commendations procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you can
Any breach of a permit is an offence, and we may take legal
make a complaint to the Ombudsman. For advice on how to
action:
complain to the Parliamentary Ombudsman phone their
  We may serve a warning on site or by letter. The officer
helpline on 0845 015 4033.
may complete the site warning declaration on this form. A

warning is our minimum enforcement response, however, it
does not preclude us taking additional enforcement
action including the issue of a formal caution, taking a
prosecution and/or the service of a notice.
  Depending on the offence, the penalties imposed by a
Court on prosecution can include substantial fines and
even imprisonment..
We have published our Enforcement and Prosecution Policy
which seeks to achieve a consistent approach to
enforcement across all our regulated activities.
_____________________________________________________________
Environment Protection Operator and Pollution Risk Appraisal
(EP OPRA)
Compliance assessment findings may affect your EP OPRA
score. This score determines your charge and affects the
allocation of our resources to check your compliance with
the permit.
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The Environment Agency will provide a copy of this report to
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information contained in this report should not be released to
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