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Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Use the pre-application advice service to find out the likelihood of getting a licence, what restrictions it may have and what you need to send with your application.
Current list of designated bathing waters in England.
This document explains and gives guidance on issues which are likely to arise from the regulations on private sewers transfer.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
How to query UK data on waste transfers and emissions, by specific substance, area, river basin, industry or economic sector.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
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