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How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
When and how to prepare a hydrogeological impact assessment (HIA) before you apply for a groundwater abstraction licence.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Information on the Nutrient Management Plan developed by the Environment Agency, Natural England and Wiltshire Council for the Hampshire Avon.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
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.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Meet the ambition and expectations in WISER and follow the WINEP methodology to develop an environmental programme for the price review 2024.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
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