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Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage 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.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
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 to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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