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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.
Get permission to send liquid waste out from factories or places where sewage is dealt with and find how to contact Scottish water suppliers and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
You may need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground.
How to use an underground storage tank safely to minimise the risk to groundwater.
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.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
The companies have been ordered to pay fines and costs in excess of £90,000 for causing trade effluent to pollute 3 kilometres of a Worcestershire brook.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
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