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A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
The outcomes that the Environment Agency will work with its partners to achieve along the Thames Estuary by 2100.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
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 select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
The additional appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WTEE.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
What you must consider when you assess the appropriate measures for your site.
Standard rules for installing a clear span bridge up to 8 metres span and 4.2 metres wide across a main river.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Standard rules for permits covering category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
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