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The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
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.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
When and how to prepare a hydrogeological impact assessment (HIA) before you apply for a groundwater abstraction licence.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
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