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Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
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.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
Get minimum reporting values and typical contaminant concentrations in sewage tanks and package treatment plants.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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