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When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
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.
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.
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 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.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
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