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Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters.
Find out about discharge limits and controls for chemical dosing of treated sewage effluents, and when you need to apply to change your environmental permit.
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.
Issues to consider relating to site location, design and capacity, reducing or preventing contamination and primary and secondary containment for new and existing sites.
How Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) will produce additional benefits for riverside communities through riverside strategies.
How to design, implement and review environmental radiological monitoring programmes. Including considerations of the source, pathway and receptors, and the level of impact associated with the site.
This section explains the decision-making processes you need to use to compare your shortlist of options and decide a preferred option. There are 2 different decision-making processes you need to use depending on your projec…
Guidance for the Environment Agency and lead local flood authorities to prepare FRMPs.
What needs to be done to manage flood risk and adapt to rising sea levels in Leigh Old Town and Southend-on-Sea, one of 23 policy units in Thames Estuary 2100.
These are waste minimisation, recovery and disposal appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
This section describes mechanisms for agricultural and non-agricultural diffuse source pollution.
This section describes measures for a range of physical modifications as a result of different areas of activity and development to the water environment.
This section summarises the measures for each of the main sectors. Please note that the summaries do not provide an exhaustive list of all the measures relevant to each sector.
When you should use the new or updated FCERM guidance for appraisal, business cases and partnership funding in your project development.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting e-bikes at waste treatment sites under a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) permit or T11 waste exemption.
View the documents for an appeal against the Environment Agency’s decision to vary a permit.
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