Protect groundwater and prevent groundwater pollution
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
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Use this guide to understand:
- what groundwater is and how your activity might affect it
- permissions you need to discharge to or abstract from groundwater
- how vulnerable your location is to groundwater pollution
- the designated groundwater protection zones
This guidance is for planners, applicants for environmental permits and abstraction licences, and landowners concerned with the quality and quantity of groundwater.