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Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
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.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Meet the ambition and expectations in WISER and follow the WINEP methodology to develop an environmental programme for the price review 2024.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
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