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Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
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.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
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