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The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
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.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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