Regulation 14 Manner of storage and location of poultry litter storage facilitiesF1F2
Northern Ireland
Poultry litter may be stored in a field or midden where land application will take place subject to a maximum limit of 180 days.
Where poultry litter is stored in a midden it shall have adequate effluent collection facilities prior to field storage or land application.
Where stored in a field, poultry litter must be stored in a compact heap but not in the same location of a field in consecutive years and must be covered with an impermeable membrane within 24 hours of placement in a field.
Compact heaps of poultry litter must not be placed within:
50m of lakes; or
20m of any waterway, including open areas of water, open field drains or any drain which has been backfilled to the surface with permeable material such as stone/aggregate; or
50m around a borehole, spring or well; or
250m from any borehole used for public water supply; or
50m of exposed cavernous or karstified limestone features (such as swallow-holes and collapse features).
In this regulation, poultry litter means a mixture of bedding material and poultry manure arising from the housing of poultry and with a dry matter content not less than 55%.
This regulation will apply from the operative date of these Regulations until 31 December 2010.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (1.1.2011) by The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/411), regs. 1, 31(1)(a) (with reg. 29(1)(2))
- F2
Reg. 14 substituted (14.12.2009) by The Nitrates Action Programme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (revoked) 2009 (S.R. 2009/360), regs. 1, 3(2)