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Storing and dewatering non-hazardous iron ochre sludge from abandoned coal mines: RPS 262

Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and dewater sludge produced by treating water pollution from abandoned coal mines.

Applies to England

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This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal obligations to get an environmental permit when you store and dewater non-hazardous iron ochre sludge produced in settlement lagoons at an abandoned coal mine water treatment scheme.

However, the Environment Agency will not normally take enforcement action when you do this without an environmental permit if you comply with the requirements in this RPS.

This enforcement position does not apply to any other legal requirements.

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Published 22 September 2022

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