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Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
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.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
Sign in or create an account for your organisation to report packaging data. This means it can comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
How to assess and manage the risks from historic land contamination.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
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