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A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
These are process efficiency appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
What farmers and land managers must know about slurry separators, storing and applying separated materials.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
The appropriate measures for process efficiency at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
A guide to the international regulations on the transportation of dangerous goods by air, sea, road, rail or inland waterway.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
These are the appropriate measures for process efficiency at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
These are the appropriate measures for process efficiency at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Information and updates on the Nent Haggs mine water treatment scheme in Cumbria, England.
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