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Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
What the UK has done to improve waste water treatment and meet its commitments under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
River stretches and bodies of water in England identified as sensitive areas under the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Find out about discharge limits and controls for chemical dosing of treated sewage effluents, and when you need to apply to change your environmental permit.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
As a business, you'll have to pay for any water you use, and for the drainage of water and any effluent (liquid waste) you produce
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.
This report looks at the impact that new regulations to increase efficiency in water use are likely to have on sewers and wastewater treatment works.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Fund will help groups of farmers investigate how they can better manage water for use in time of drought, helping to safeguard food security.
How local authorities must deal with fly-tipping and the penalties they can charge.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
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