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Guidelines for sewerage undertakers in England and Wales as to how to prepare, publish and maintain their DWMP.
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.
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.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Guidance on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
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.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
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