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Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
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.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
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