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How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
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.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
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.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
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.
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 ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
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).
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
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