BA14 9AX, Wessex Water Services Limited and Wessex Water Enterprises Limited: environmental permit applications advertisement - EPR/BB3934AG/V002 and EPR/HB3602TR/V003
Published 17 September 2024
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Details of the applications
The Environment Agency have received applications to vary environmental permits under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to permits from Wessex Water Services Limited and Wessex Water Enterprises Limited.
Application numbers
EPR/BB3934AG/V002 and EPR/HB3602TR/V003
Regulated facility types
This substantial variation is to add the following Schedule 1 listed activity under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016: S5.4 A(1)(b)(i) Recovery or a mix of recovery and disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day (or 100 tonnes per day if the only waste treatment activity is anaerobic digestion) involving biological treatment.
The activity involves the biological treatment of sludge by anaerobic digestion. The facility is currently permitted as separate waste operation permits that will be varied into multi operator installation permits. The Wessex Water Services Limited permit shall form the main 5.4 activity permit, whilst the Wessex Water Enterprises Limited permit shall form a standalone directly associated activity (DAA) permit to the main 5.4 activity.
Regulated facility address
Trowbridge Sewage Treatment Works
Off Bradford Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 9AX
The applications contain a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:
- the installation
- the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
- the conditions of its site
- the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
- the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
- and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered
How to view and comment on the applications
If you have any comments on the applications send these by 15 October 2024.
You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
For advice about how to make a representation or if you are unable to make a representation via e-mail, please call 03708 506 506.
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