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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.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
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.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
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.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
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