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Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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