The Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study undertook a review of local authority drainage practices in five key areas:
- New Development
- Environmental Management
- Climate Change
- Inflow/ Infiltration and Exfiltration
- Basements
New policies have been drawn up in all of these areas and incorporated in to the Development Plans of the regional local authorities. A set of detailed technical documents has been prepared to effect the implementation of these policies. The following section is the full text of the Overall Policy Document, which briefly summarises all five technical documents.