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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.
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.
Get minimum reporting values and typical contaminant concentrations in sewage tanks and package treatment plants.
Setting alternative objectives to the Water Framework Directive default water body status objectives.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
Tees sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
Wear sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
Northumberland sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
The Environment Agency has made an application to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for one transfer licence and two impoundment licences.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
Consultation response for the Anglian River Basin District.
Business engagement assessment for revised river flow and water abstraction standards for run of river hydropower schemes.
Tyne sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
The Independent Water Commission will open a call for evidence on 27 February 2025.
The documents and data systems that make up the draft river basin management plans.
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