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When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
You can appeal to the Environment Agency if your water company has refused to provide a public sewer connection. Or if you want to dispute when they will provide the sewer by.
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.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
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…
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
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.
An update on measures to increase the long-term water supply in Greater Cambridge, and to address water scarcity issues in the short-term.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
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.
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