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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.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.
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.
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.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
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