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How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
When and how risk management authorities should use climate change allowances for flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
Introducing 3 innovative programmes to improve resilience to flooding and coastal change.
How to keep your reservoir operating safely. For reservoir owners, operators and those maintaining or operating large raised reservoirs in England.
Map showing the River Medway navigation between Allington Lock and Tonbridge.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
What to do if you see a bloom of algae in a river, lake or the sea.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
You must manage the landfill gas produced by the waste in your site.
19 waste codes are from waste management facilities, off-site waste water treatment plants and the preparation of water intended for human consumption and water for industrial use. Your permit lists the 19 waste codes you ca…
How to approach sampling ambient air and the sampling and analytical techniques to use.
As a risk management authority (RMA) you can appraise your FCERM project, prepare your business case and submit it for technical and financial approval.
Check if you're affected by the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM). See what actions you must take each scheme year.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Fire and rescue services in England can use this service to report the use of environmental protection equipment at an incident to the Environment Agency.
Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
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