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What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Review of the arrangements for determining responsibility for surface water and drainage assets.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
This project developed a simple tool for people, who are not experts, to find out what drainage systems a new development is likely to need.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Report to assess the impact of highway runoff on receiving waters in order to assist in the future design of highway drainage systems.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Non-statutory technical standards for the design, maintenance and operation of sustainable drainage systems to drain surface water.
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 how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
This is a report on the critical issues that must be considered when designing, constructing and maintaining SUDS schemes to effectively manage rainwater runoff from development sites.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
How to use the maps to find out if you're at risk of flooding from surface water.
Form for applicants to help you complete a Farm Environment Record (FER) by assessing runoff and soil erosion risks on your land.
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