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How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
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.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
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 monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
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