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Guidance setting out the standards that continuous ambient monitoring systems and low-cost air quality sensor systems need to meet.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
When you must tell the Environment Agency that you're storing material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and how to do it.
The emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Proposed abolition of three Drainage Boards and the amalgamation of the Drainage Districts under the jurisdiction of those Boards, and the constitution of a new internal drainage board.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules for temporary storage on a flood plain of a main river.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
Information on the restrictions affecting the navigation on the River Thames.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
What happens if a structure or feature on your land is designated as a flood or coastal erosion defence asset.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating healthcare waste.
These are waste treatment appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
You can report fraud and irregularities against the Environment Agency.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Severn river basin district river basin management plan.
View the documents for an appeal against the Environment Agency’s decision to vary a permit.
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