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Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
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.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
Guidance on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
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