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Support if you’ve been flooded: how to clear up, dispose of contaminated items and sandbags, repair your property.
Two new mascots are helping bring to life the history and wildlife of a city centre urban watercourse.
This guidance provides information on COVID-19 in homelessness, domestic abuse refuge, respite room and asylum seeker accommodation settings.
The U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
The T27 exemption allows organophosphate sheep dip to be treated with an approved organophosphate-degrading enzyme. T27 is currently unavailable for use.
Guidance for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
An accelerated licensing process may apply to some applications for dredging activity.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
Public health advice for prisons and other prescribed places of detention.
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 local councils and internal drainage boards (IDBs) can make byelaws to prevent an increase in flood risk or to manage land drainage.
The T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
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