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The appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
Flood and coastal erosion risk management grant-in-aid projects: approval forms and guidance for risk management authorities.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for July 2025
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
How to report releases and transfers from industrial activities that the Environment Agency regulates.
Charges for Environment Agency base moorings at locks on the River Thames.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Information for boaters on the River Nene.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
What river basin management plans are and their benefits. How they are structured and finding the information you need.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
River conditions, reach closures and restrictions affecting boaters on the River Medway.
Information for boaters on the Rivers Welland and Glen.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The outcomes that the Environment Agency will work with its partners to achieve along the Thames Estuary by 2100.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
Information on the closures affecting the navigation on the River Thames.
Boating basics including essential knowledge and techniques you need to make sure you enjoy yourselves and stay safe on the water.
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