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When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
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.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
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.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
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.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
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