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Setting alternative objectives to the Water Framework Directive default water body status objectives.
Consultation response for the Anglian River Basin District.
Environment Agency state aid exemption from the European Commission, relating to Water Framework Directive objectives for 2017 to March 2021.
When you can build lined biobeds in a groundwater source protection zone 1 (SPZ1).
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
Business engagement assessment for revised river flow and water abstraction standards for run of river hydropower schemes.
Tees sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
Tyne sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
Wear sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
Northumberland sub-catchment maps showing water body status and reason for failure.
This leaflet explains how abstraction or impoundment licences can be changed to restore sustainable abstraction.
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.
Notices specifying the Thames Tideway Tunnel project and requiring Thames Water to carry out certain preparatory works, including reasons.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
Notice of application for a drought permit
Environment Agency enforcement position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during utility works repairing water infrastructure mains and connections.
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.
The Environment Agency has made an application to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for one transfer licence and two impoundment licences.
The documents and data systems that make up the draft river basin management plans.
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