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Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
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 support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
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