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How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
How the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales complete the annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
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.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
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