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Environment Agency enforcement position for wetlands that receive treated final effluent discharged from water and sewerage company wastewater treatment works.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
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 can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
The 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.
Guidance to water and sewerage undertakers and the Water Services Regulation Authority under Section 44 of the Flood and Water Management Act.
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.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
Funding for organisations and land managers to improve the water environment in rural England: when you can start work, how to get paid and the scheme rules.
A framework for water supply reservoirs and flood risk management, and how to apply it.
An update on measures to increase the long-term water supply in Greater Cambridge, and to address water scarcity issues in the short-term.
A practical guide to utilities for home builders.
Information on the Nutrient Management Plan developed by the Environment Agency, Natural England and Wiltshire Council for the Hampshire Avon.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
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