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When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
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.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
Use this service to tell the Environment Agency about the death or bankruptcy of a water resources licence holder.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
A joint statement between DLUHC, Defra, the Environment Agency and Greater Cambridge councils (Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire districts) on measures to address water scarcity issues in the area.
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