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Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
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.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
When and how to prepare a hydrogeological impact assessment (HIA) before you apply for a groundwater abstraction licence.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
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