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Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
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.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
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.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
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.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
Use this service to tell the Environment Agency about the death or bankruptcy of a water resources licence holder.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
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