Authors: Lorna Fitzsimons, Eoghan Clifford, Greg McNamara, Edelle Doherty, Thomas Phelan, Matthew Horrigan, Yann Delauré and Brian Corcoran, May 2016
Year: 2016
The focus of this project was the resource efficiency of Irish wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The perspective of the report is both operational (economic) and environmental. Wastewater treatment is a resource-intensive process, with three main resources being identified as those of greatest concern: energy, chemicals and water.
Author: Jean Wilson, Carlos Rocha and Catherine Coxon, April 2016
Year: 2016
Precipitation that reaches the earth’s surface can infiltrate into the ground to become groundwater. Groundwater is subsurface water that fully saturates pores or cracks in soil and rocks. While an important source of freshwater globally, groundwater is also environmentally important as baseflow or low-water flow, which maintains river, stream and lake levels, as well as their associated ecosystems.
Author: David Hevey, April 2016
Year: 2016
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. It has no taste, colour or smell. It is formed in the ground by the radioactive decay of uranium which is present in all rocks and soils. The World Health Organisation has categorised radon as a carcinogen, in the same group as asbestos and tobacco smoke.
To Accompany EPA Research Report 167, March 2016
Year: 2016
The accompanying guidelines to Research 167 which examines the elements required for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of engagement strategy.
Relay Risk: Examining the Communication of Environmental Risk through a Case Study of Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Republic of Ireland, March 2016
Year: 2016
The report examines the elements required for the preparation, implementation, and monitoring of an engagement strategy aimed at communicating risk-based environmental regulation of domestic wastewater treatment systems to owners of such systems. The report is aimed at regulators, national and local authorities, and policy makers, particularly those involved in environmental risk communication, management and assessment
Authors: Marie Archbold, Jenny Deakin, Michael Bruen, Mesfin Desta, Ray Flynn, Mary Kelly- Quinn, Laurence Gill, Pamela Maher, Bruce Misstear, Eva Mockler, Ronan O’Brien, Alison Orr, Ian Packham and Joshua Thompson, March 2016
Year: 2016
The synthesis report for the PATHWAYS project.
Authors: Edel Hannigan and Mary Kelly-Quinn, February 2016
Year: 2016
This report is the Literature Review of the Rare Type project, which will help ensure that rare river types are categorised and assessed correctly as required by the WFD.
Authors: Laurence Gill, Donata Dubber, Vincent O’Flaherty, Mary Keegan, Kate Kilroy, Sean Curneen, Bruce Misstear, Paul Johnston, Francesco Pilla, Tim McCarthy, Nadeem Qazi and David Smyth, January 2016
Year: 2016
The potential impacts of incorrectly situated or poorly constructed domestic waste water treatment systems (DWWTSs) include the polution of either groundwater and/or surface water and places a risk on human health particularly via private wells.
Authors: Dearbháile Morris, Suvi Harris, Carol Morris,Enda Commins and Martin Cormican, January 2016
Year: 2016
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health problem. In Ireland, and most of Europe, hospital effluent is released into the urban wastewater system without any specific measurement of antibiotic levels or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and without any pre-treatment.
Year: 2015
This project identifies novel technologies for environmental enforcement to support local authorities.
Year: 2015
Synthesis report for the study which involved the measurement of particulate and PAH levels in Letterkenny, Killarney, Navan and Tralee for a period of one year in order to ascertain the level of particulate air quality in those towns.
Year: 2015
This report provides an outline of the regional climate modelling undertaken to determine the potential impacts of climate change in Ireland, based on a number of possible future scenarios, and to highlight the key findings.
Year: 2015
This research aimed to clarify some aspects of the nature and consequences of the interaction between engineered nanoparticles and the environment.
Mark Boyden, StreamScapes Aquatic & Biodiversity Education Project, November 2015
Year: 2015
This study provides an overview of practical examples of public engagement and makes recommendations in an effort to contribute to the quest to determine viable, practicable and effective engagement techniques to secure meaningful participation by the public in the attainment of essential aquatic and biodiversity goals.
Authors: Fiona M. Devaney and Philip M. Perrin, November 2015
Year: 2015
The EU Water Framework Directive aims to protect and enhance the quality of rivers, lakes, groundwater, estuaries and coastal waters. Member States (MS), such as Ireland, must aim to achieve good status in all waters by 2015 and ensure that status does not decline. As part of this commitment, MS must assess and classify the quality of transitional and coastal waters.
Year: 2015
MOLAND is a land use computer model that is based on socio-economic and demographic data and provides an image of the possible future. The model can ascertain what land use planning alternatives will look like over set time periods, and so it can be used to assess, monitor and model the development of (sub-)regional environments.
Year: 2015
Alternatives are fundamental to Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and are required under the SEA Directive (Directive 2001/42/EC).1. Research Report 157 contains recommendations for the development of these alternatives
EPA Research - using knowledge to protect and improve our natural environment and human health, November 2015
Year: 2015
A summary of the EPA Water Research Programme, key achievements, water research publications and water research projects funded 2014-2020.
