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Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
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.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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.
An update on measures to increase the long-term water supply in Greater Cambridge, and to address water scarcity issues in the short-term.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
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