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Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Requirements and expectations for managing and regulating storm overflows.
This statutory instrument brings the regulatory functions exercised by Ofcom, Ofgem and Ofwat within the scope of the Growth Duty by amending the Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/267) (“the 20…
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