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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.
Guidance primarily for local responders covering some infrastructure issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of a UK emergency.
Homes in East Peckham and Five Oak Green better protected from flooding, as property flood resilience measures installed in 424 properties
Use the Water Restoration Fund application form to apply for a grant to restore and improve rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, wetlands or estuarine waters.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
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.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Guidance for flood risk management authorities and those working in the flood and coastal risk management sector.
Apply for a grant to restore and improve rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, wetlands or estuarine waters.
The latest updates on monitored groundwater levels and whether there are any groundwater alerts or warnings in force.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
This section describes the mechanisms to prevent or reduce the impact of accidental pollution incidents.
Northumbrian Water will pay £50,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after a burst pipe polluted Monkton Burn in Jarrow, South Tyneside.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
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