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The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
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