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How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Environment Agency warns poor crop-management could increase region's flooding and pollution
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Guidance for inspecting engineers including the reporting of section 10 inspection findings.
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.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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