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Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
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