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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
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.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
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.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Guidance to water and sewerage undertakers and the Water Services Regulation Authority under Section 44 of the Flood and Water Management Act.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
Funding for organisations and land managers to improve the water environment in rural England: when you can start work, how to get paid and the scheme rules.
An update on measures to increase the long-term water supply in Greater Cambridge, and to address water scarcity issues in the short-term.
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