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Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Detailed modelling of surface water pollution for an environmental permit risk assessment.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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