Engineering guidance
- Position statements
- Regulatory methods
- SEPA supporting guidance: good practice guides
- Bank protection guidance
- Gold panning guidance
- Biosecurity and non-native species
- Placement of large wood guidance
- Authorisation of Ponds Guidance
- Placement of Pipelines Guidance
- Fences Guidance
- Engineering & Impounding activities affecting drainage ditched guidance
- Fords guidance
Position statements
These set out our approach to particular issues that arise during the regulatory process:
- WAT-PS-06-02: Culverting of Watercourses
(122k) - WAT-PS-06-03: SEPA's Position Statement: Sediment Management - this document now replaced by WAT-SG-78: Sediment Management Authorisation (144k)
- WAT-PS-07-01: Emergency Engineering Works - now obsolete. Refer to WAT-RM-49: CAR 2011 Emergency Provisions (320k)
- WAT-PS-07-03: Engineering in Artificial Inland Surface Waters (131k)
- WAT-PS-14-01: CAR and the Management of Beaver Structures (22k)
Regulatory methods
These set out the process SEPA follows when assessing engineering applications:
SEPA supporting guidance: good practice guides
- WAT-SG-23 Good Practice Guide – Bank Protection (2mb)
- WAT-SG-25: Good Practice Guide - River Crossings (11 mb)
- WAT-SG-26: Good Practice Guide - Sediment Management (3.1 mb)
- WAT-SG-28: Good Practice Guide - Intakes and Outfalls (2.67 mb)
- WAT-SG-29: Good Practice Guide – Construction Methods (3.2 mb)
- WAT-SG-44: Good Practice Guide – Riparian Vegetation Management (2.2 mb)
- Watercourses in the Community: A Guide to Sustainable Watercourse Management in the Urban Environment (4.76 mb)
- Ponds, Pools and Lochans: Guidance on good practice in the management and creation of small waterbodies in Scotland (3.82 mb)
- Managing River Habitats for Fisheries (5.80 mb)
- Reducing river bank erosion: A best practice guide for farmers and other land managers (1.6 mb)
Documents produced for SEPA staff, which we have made publicly available:
- WAT-SG-21: Environmental Standards for River Morphology (3.7 mb)
- WAT-SG-30: Review of River Geomorphology Impact Assessment Tools and Post Project Monitoring Guidance for Engineering Activities (1.19 mb)
- WAT-SG-31: SEPA Special Requirements for Civil Engineering Contracts for the Prevention of Pollution (33k)
- WAT-SG-32: SEPA Guidance on the Special Requirement for Civil Engineering Contracts (87k)
- WAT-SG-37: Engineering Log Jams: Conceptual Design Guidelines (3.41 mb)
- WAT-SG-78: Sediment Management Authorisation (144k) (Replaces WAT-PS-06-03)
- WAT-SG-80: GIS Screening Tool Guidance for Engineering Registration Level Activities (865k)
- WAT-SG-86: Registration Rules for Exposed Sediment Removal (209k)
- WAT-SG-93: Guidance for transport infrastructure projects (700kb)