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The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
Notices specifying the Thames Tideway Tunnel project and requiring Thames Water to carry out certain preparatory works, including reasons.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
A framework for water supply reservoirs and flood risk management, and how to apply it.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
This leaflet explains how abstraction or impoundment licences can be changed to restore sustainable abstraction.
Information on the Nutrient Management Plan developed by the Environment Agency, Natural England and Wiltshire Council for the Hampshire Avon.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
This statutory instrument brings the regulatory functions exercised by Ofcom, Ofgem and Ofwat within the scope of the Growth Duty by amending the Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/267) (“the 20…
Funding for organisations and land managers to improve the water environment in rural England: when you can start work, how to get paid and the scheme rules.
How Defra will use your personal information when you submit an application for a site to be designated or de-designated as a bathing water.
Proposed amalgamation of 2 Internal Drainage Districts, the abolition of the related Internal Drainage Boards and the creation a new Internal Drainage Board
The Environment Agency has received an application from William George Topham, George Topham and Jean Papworth trading as Woodhall Farm Partnership for a licence to abstract (take) water.
Setting alternative objectives to the Water Framework Directive default water body status objectives.
Meet the ambition and expectations in WISER and follow the WINEP methodology to develop an environmental programme for the price review 2024.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
Consultation response for the Anglian River Basin District.
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