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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.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
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.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
Non-statutory standards for the design, maintenance and operation of surface water drainage systems in England.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
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.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
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