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The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
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.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
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