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Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
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.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
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.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
When and how to prepare a hydrogeological impact assessment (HIA) before you apply for a groundwater abstraction licence.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
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.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
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