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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.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
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.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
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