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Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
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 avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
You can appeal to the Environment Agency if your water company has refused to provide a public sewer connection. Or if you want to dispute when they will provide the sewer by.
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.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
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