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How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Guidelines for sewerage undertakers in England and Wales as to how to prepare, publish and maintain their DWMP.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
Guidance on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
How to query UK data on waste transfers and emissions, by specific substance, area, river basin, industry or economic sector.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
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