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When you can get a licence to catch salmon or sea trout by net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
How hydroelectric power works, regional schemes and information on installing your own micro-hydro scheme.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
How operators of nuclear sites in England and Wales should design and carry out an environmental radiological monitoring programme as required by a radioactive substances activity permit. This guidance is also for regulators…
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
How your environmental permit tells you to manage odour pollution.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the North West river basin district river basin management plan.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
Calculate your net carbon emissions and economic benefits - for risk management authorities and project teams.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
This guidance describes the Environment Agency’s natural flood management (NFM) heat maps.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept non-hazardous filter cake waste from soil and aggregate washing facilities, at landfill and deposit for recovery sites.
A document to help Environment Agency staff identify and communicate climate impacts and risks relevant to our work.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
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