A1(T) Elkesley Junction Improvements - Highways Agency

ConnectivityControlled WatersCountrysideCropmarkCultural HeritageDeep CuttingDepartment for the Environment,Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)DesignationsDischarge ConsentDiffusion TubesDiversity‘Do Nothing’ ScenarioElementEnhancementEnvironmentEnvironmental BarriersEnvironmental Impact Assessment(EIA)Environmental Management PlanEnvironmental StatementErosionExceedenceFeatureFluvialGeologyGlacial TillHeritageHydrogeologyIndirect ImpactThe degree to which habitat patches in an urban or agriculturalmatrix are interconnected by linear habitats.Surface waters, groundwaters and coastal waters to which UKlegislation on pollution applies. It is an offence, with certainexceptions, to knowingly permit trade or sewage effluent, toxicpollutants or solid matter to enter controlled waters withoutdischarge consent.The rural environment and its associated communities.These are light and dark marks visible in growing and ripeningcrops, especially via aerial photography, which reflect thedifferences in the subsoil beneath.Encompasses the qualities and attributes of places that haveaesthetic, historic, scientific or social value for past, present orfuture generations.Road building operation where the proposed road alignment iscut deep into the earth.UK Government department with responsibilities for EIA onuncultivated land and semi-natural areas in England and Wales.Notable sites, areas, buildings or structures protected byplanning or other laws. Can be applied at Local, Regional andNational and International level.Statutory documents produced by Environment Agency whichpermits the discharge of effluent into controlled waters undercertain conditions and limits.Devices installed at locations in a study area to sample NO2levels. The tubes are exposed and then sent off to a laboratoryfor analysis.Where a variety of qualities or characteristics occurs.The continued change or evolution that naturally occurs in theabsence of development.A component part.Improvement through restoration, reconstruction or creation.Our physical surroundings, including land, air and water.Structure that will reduce noise impacts and screen developmentmainly constructed from earth mounds or hedgerows.The systematic, reproducible and interdisciplinary identification,prediction and evaluation, mitigation and management ofimpacts from a proposed development and its reasonablealternatives. Also referenced as Environmental Assessment.A structured plan that outlines the mitigation, monitoring andmanagement requirements arising from an EnvironmentalImpact Assessment.Document in which the results of an EIA are presented todecision-makers and the public.The wearing away of rock or soil by physical and chemicalprocesses, e.g. water, wind, ice and solution.A period of time where the concentrations of a pollutant isgreater than, or equal to, the appropriate air quality standard.A prominent, eye-catching element.Of, relating to, or inhabiting a river or streamThe scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of theearth.Accumulations of unsorted, un-stratified mixtures of clay, silt,sand, gravel, and boulders; the usual composition of a moraine.Historic or Cultural Associations.The branch of geology that deals with the occurrence,distribution, and effect of ground water.See Secondary Impact.8