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Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
This guide explains the problems and risks which may come from extreme weather, how to mitigate them and how you can make your reservoir more resilient. You can read each section in isolation, or as a whole document.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
Describes the challenges to the current and potential future uses of the water environment in England.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
View the application submitted by Qualitech Environmental Services Limited for Qualichem, Birkenhead.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
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