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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.
Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Approved specifications as a way of showing compliance with relevant regulations. The specifications on this page apply from 6 May 2027.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Water companies in England and Wales can use this service to submit an incident action plan for a dry day spill to the Environment Agency.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
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