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Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
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.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
Non-statutory standards for the design, maintenance and operation of surface water drainage systems in England.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
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