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How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
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 conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
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