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How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has developed techniques to measure the moisture and the suction beneath roads
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
The difficulty of achieving optimum moisture content for the compaction of soils in arid areas and past experience at low moisture contents
This section explains how the Environment Agency describes the water environment geographical units, and how we assess their current condition.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
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