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This section describes the aims of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, objectives for specific water body types, the river basin planning process and cost recovery.
When you can get a licence to catch salmon or sea trout by net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
How the Environment Agency reviews the impact of climate change on the Thames Estuary and updates planned work and timescales.
The emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of waste batteries.
The appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment of WEEE.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Take a trip along 29km of meandering waterway from tonbridge to allington.
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
What to do if you see a bloom of algae in a river, lake or the sea.
View the application submitted by KIMBERLY-CLARK LIMITED for Northfleet Paper Mill, Northfleet.
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Information on the restrictions affecting the navigation on the River Thames.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding if you support a community or group
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