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Information on the closures affecting the navigation on the River Thames.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Find out about discharge limits and controls of substances discharged from water treatment works.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.
You must manage the landfill gas produced by the waste in your site.
How to approach sampling ambient air and the sampling and analytical techniques to use.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
When you must tell the Environment Agency that you're storing material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and how to do it.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
Setting out how regulatory bodies can co-ordinate the separate processes for coastal development consents in England.
You must complete and submit this application if you are submitting a notification under the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
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