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How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
You can appeal to the Environment Agency if your water company has refused to provide a public sewer connection. Or if you want to dispute when they will provide the sewer by.
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.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
Information on the Nutrient Management Plan developed by the Environment Agency, Natural England and Wiltshire Council for the Hampshire Avon.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
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