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Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Thames river basin district river basin management plan.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
The Environment Agency’s aims and objectives for Thames Estuary 2100.
What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Information on peak river flow allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
As a risk management authority (RMA) you can appraise your FCERM project, prepare your business case and submit it for technical and financial approval.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to store and treat ELVs or components. Exempt facilities which store or treat ELVs or compo…
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