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You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Guidelines for sewerage undertakers in England and Wales as to how to prepare, publish and maintain their DWMP.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
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