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How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Impact of Sewage Effluent Disposal on Groundwater. This research considers the installation of septic tank effluent disposal systems in the future.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
The findings of a survey of current Environment Agency practice for controlling sewage disposal to underground Chalk strata in the UK.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
How to use an underground storage tank safely to minimise the risk to groundwater.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Complete if you are applying for an environmental permit for an existing discharge to ground within a source protection zone 1.
What you need to review before installing or using an underground storage tank for fuel.
How to decommission an underground storage tank temporarily or permanently and the risks to groundwater.
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