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When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
The Coal Authority manages more than 80 mine water treatment schemes across Britain, handling and treating over 122 billion litres of mine water every year.
The Environment Agency deals with applications for water abstraction and impoundment. The Planning Inspectorate deals with appeals.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Plans to maintain water supply resilience have been discussed by National Drought Group members amidst ongoing hot and dry weather.
How to apply for a screening study with the Environment Agency to assess and rank water resources options for farming.
This collection brings together all documents relating to business rates retention.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
How government, water companies and the Environment Agency make sure there is enough water for future needs of both people and the environment.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
This paper describes the role of an Active Leakage Control programme as a means of achieving water savings
Guidance for flood risk management authorities and those working in the flood and coastal risk management sector.
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