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Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Water companies in England and Wales can use this service to submit an incident action plan for a dry day spill to the Environment Agency.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
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.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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