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Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
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.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
How to apply for funding to deliver water management works that raise water tables in lowland peat soils in England, including eligibility and costs.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
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