Pollution prevention on the river tweed: past, present and future ☆

The paper reflects briefly on the historical aspects of pollution control and discusses how the Board has ‘used’ its 40 years. It also discusses its organisational structure, the legislative controls and a selection of the issues it has had to deal with before moving on to the final section of the paper covering the future and the challenges facing the Boardʹs successors, the Scottisch Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).