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Supplement to Guideline – ‘Environmental Risk Tolerability for COMAH Establishments’
Storage Terminal Example v0.0
2.4 Environmental Receptors
Section 3.1 Environmental Receptors, Appendix 2 and Appendix 3 provide information on the types
of environmental receptors which need to be considered in the assessment. In this case study, a
number of these types of environmental receptors are present within 10km of the establishment.
For the purpose of this case study, four receptors have been selected to demonstrate how the
unmitigated source – pathway – receptor linkages are identified.
x
the adjacent estuary is classified as Receptor Type 6 – ‘widespread habitat – non designated
water’ and Receptor Type 15 – ‘fresh and estuarine water habitats’;
x
a fish farm within the estuary is also classified under Receptor Type 6 – ‘widespread habitat –
non designated water’;
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a protected bird species, the Godwit, resides in the estuary. The Godwit occurs at nationally
significant numbers in the estuary (i.e. in excess of 1% of the UK population), at 5.6% of the
UK population. The Godwit is classified under Receptor Type 13 – ‘particular species’; and