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The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
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.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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.
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.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
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