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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.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
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 installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
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.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
Notices specifying the Thames Tideway Tunnel project and requiring Thames Water to carry out certain preparatory works, including reasons.
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.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
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 to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
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…
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
Proposed amalgamation of 2 Internal Drainage Districts, the abolition of the related Internal Drainage Boards and the creation a new Internal Drainage Board
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
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