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The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
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.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
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.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
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