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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
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.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Guidance on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
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.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
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