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The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
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