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Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
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.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Use this service to tell the Environment Agency about the death or bankruptcy of a water resources licence holder.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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 considers competing proposals to abstract water and what to do if the Environment Agency has said your application is competing with one or more other proposals.
How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
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