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Environmental monitoring

We run the monitoring your permit requires, from dust and noise on construction sites to annual stack tests, and write the reports NCEC expects.

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Overview

Most permits come with monitoring conditions: what to measure, where and how often. The results go to NCEC in periodic monitoring reports, which must be prepared by an NCEC licensed provider, with the sampling and measurements also done by a licensed provider.

Our field teams carry out the monitoring and our consultants turn the results into reports that meet NCEC’s guide.

In brief, from our library

Environmental monitoring reports are mandatory where your permit conditions require them, and they cover the period from permit issue to the end of the permit. The frequency is set in the permit, for example quarterly, semi-annual or annual. The report must be prepared by an NCEC licensed provider, with sampling and measurements by an NCEC licensed provider, and the NCEC guide lists 13 required report elements. Monitoring data must be kept for at least 5 years under the Air Quality and Aqueous Media regulations and at least 3 years under the Noise regulation.NCEC guidance manual for the environmental monitoring report (CP-02-M-01-V01)

Read the full guide: What must an NCEC environmental monitoring report include?

When you need it

  • Your permit sets monitoring conditions, for example quarterly, semi-annual or annual reports.Monitoring report guide
  • You operate stacks or other point sources. Each must have its emissions measured every year unless it is under continuous monitoring.Air reg.
  • Your construction site needs dust and noise monitoring.Air reg. and Noise reg.

What we deliver

  • Ambient air and dustPM10, PM2.5 and gases.
  • Stack emissionsAnnual tests on point sources.
  • NoiseBoundary and receptor monitoring.
  • WaterGroundwater, surface water and discharge testing.
  • Monitoring reportsCovering every element in NCEC’s guide.

How we work

  1. Read the conditions

    We list every monitoring requirement in your permit.

  2. Set the programme

    Points, parameters and frequency.

  3. Measure

    Our teams sample and measure on schedule.

  4. Report

    Results checked against the limits and reported on time. Point source records and water monitoring data must be kept for at least 5 years.Air reg. Art. 5, Fifth (1)(a). Aqueous reg. Art. 6, Fourth (5)

Guides on this topic

References

Show all 5 references
  1. Monitoring report guide
  2. Air reg.
  3. Air reg. and Noise reg.
  4. Air reg. Art. 5, Fifth (1)(a). Aqueous reg. Art. 6, Fourth (5)
  5. NCEC guidance manual for the environmental monitoring report (CP-02-M-01-V01)
How to read these references 4 texts cited
  • Art. 7(4)(b) means Article 7, paragraph 4, item (b).
  • First, Second and Third are the numbered parts some articles are divided into. The Arabic texts write them أولاً، ثانياً، ثالثاً (meaning first, second, third).

Every text we cite is listed on our regulations page.

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