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The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
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.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
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.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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