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How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don鈥檛 need an environmental permit or exemption.
皇冠体育app conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
皇冠体育app water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
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