Pol07 - Inspection of watercourse pollution prevention features – Above Green

(3 credits)

Aim

To maintain the effectiveness of any features installed to prevent watercourse pollution.

Question

Are bunded areas, light-liquid separators and grease separators effectively maintained?

Assessment Criteria

Criterion

Assessment criteria

Applicable answer

Filtering

Where no bunded areas are required (as no liquids requiring bunded storage are stored on-site) or the asset does not require light-liquid separators or grease separators, the associated credits can be filtered out of the assessment.

All

Evidence

Criteria	Evidence requirement
-	The evidence below is not exhaustive, please also refer to the ‘BREEAM evidential requirements’ section in the scope of the Guidance for appropriate evidence types which can be used to demonstrate compliance.
All	Copy of the maintenance policy or contract highlighting the sections relevant to bunding, light-liquid separators and grease separators.
All	Copy of logbook or inspection schedule.

Definitions

Bund:

A structure made of an impermeable material which forms a barrier to retain liquids.

Light-liquid separators:

Vessels that are part of a surface water drainage system, into which potentially contaminated waste water will flow and where light-liquids are separated from the waste water by means of gravity and/or coalescence and retained.