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Use this service to tell the Environment Agency about the death or bankruptcy of a water resources licence holder.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
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.
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 storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO 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.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
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.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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