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How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
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.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Guidance on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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 carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily discharge water intended for drinking water supply to surface waters from water treatment works and water supply assets.
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