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When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
This guidance sets out the statutory general binding rules which will…
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Non-statutory technical standards for the design, maintenance and operation of sustainable drainage systems to drain surface water.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily discharge water intended for drinking water supply to surface waters from water treatment works and water supply assets.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing services for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
Guidance to water and sewerage undertakers and the Water Services Regulation Authority under Section 44 of the Flood and Water Management Act.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Environment Agency enforcement position for wetlands that receive treated final effluent discharged from water and sewerage company wastewater treatment works.
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