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T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
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.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
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 when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative 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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
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