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Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
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.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
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