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Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
Approved specifications as a way of showing compliance with relevant regulations. The specifications on this page apply from 6 May 2027.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
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.
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.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
How to access UK data on industrial emissions and waste transfers.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
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