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You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to query UK data on waste transfers and emissions, by specific substance, area, river basin, industry or economic sector.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Non-statutory technical standards for the design, maintenance and operation of sustainable drainage systems to drain surface water.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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