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How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
You can appeal to the Environment Agency if your water company has refused to provide a public sewer connection. Or if you want to dispute when they will provide the sewer by.
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