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Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Environment Agency enforcement position for wetlands that receive treated final effluent discharged from water and sewerage company wastewater treatment works.
How to apply for and comply with environmental permits for surface water discharge activities or groundwater activities.
Find out how to move your goods from inward processing into free circulation, another special procedure or re-export.
The Environment Agency’s national investigation into potential breaches of permit conditions at wastewater treatment works by water and sewerage companies.
How to complete a water discharge return.
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.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
What research and consultancy services Cefas provides, what legislation you need to comply with, and how to meet those requirements.
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