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Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
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.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
Non-statutory standards for the design, maintenance and operation of surface water drainage systems in England.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
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