Location and type of waste water treatment plants (2018)

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Waste water treatment is designed to process waste water whilst protecting the environment and maintaining public health. Outfalls to the marine environment fall into three categories:

  1. outfalls from waste water treatment (WWT) plants which process waste water from the mains sewerage system  (this layer);
  2. industrial sites which take waste from manufacturing plants (see separate layer - Industrial (SPRI) marine discharges); and
  3. some private domestic sources (not on NMPi).

These categories of outfall also discharge to the riverine freshwater environment which eventually reach the sea.

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Base WMS Address: http://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/ows/nmp?
Layer name:nmp:sepa_wwtw
Does this layer display time aware features: 
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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the public sector licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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