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Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
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 apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily discharge water intended for drinking water supply to surface waters from water treatment works and water supply assets.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
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