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When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
The 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.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency enforcement position for wetlands that receive treated final effluent discharged from water and sewerage company wastewater treatment works.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
When and how to prepare a hydrogeological impact assessment (HIA) before you apply for a groundwater abstraction licence.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
A framework for water supply reservoirs and flood risk management, and how to apply it.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
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