AQW 9047/16-21

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 19/12/2016
Answered On Date: 10/01/2017
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline the Northern Ireland Environment Agency's policy in relation to the responsibility of an off-mains sewage system.

Answer:

Under the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, the consent of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is required to make a discharge of sewage effluent from an off mains sewage system into a waterway or water contained in underground stratum.

The responsibility for obtaining such consents lies with the individual(s) making the discharge in question, and once, consent has been issued responsibility for compliance rests with the holder of said consent.