Water Quality Exemptions Public Register Online

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Environment Agency
Last updated:
05 January 2024
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Summary

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA208. Certain activities are exempt from the need to have an environmental permit. In order to qualify for an exemption, the discharge or activity must meet certain criteria. If the criteria cannot be met the customer will need to apply for a permit. There is no fee for registration of an exempt activity.
There are 7 exemptions available: Domestic discharges of:
5m3 per day or less to surface water, existing before 6 April 2010
2m3 per day or less to ground water, existing before 6 April 2010
5m3 per day or less to surface water, starting on or after 6 April 2010
2m3 per day or less to ground water, starting on or after 6 April 2010
Discharge to groundwater of small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a specified groundwater remediation scheme
Discharge to groundwater of small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test
Management of vegetation in or near inland freshwaters. Attribution statement: We may be able to license this dataset to you under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence with the following special conditions.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-01-05
Access contraints
Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
3a009fd6-7e85-48dd-b9e9-276bf4b1545a
Extent
Latitude: 55.816° to 49.943°
Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2010-04-06 (creation)
Frequency of update
daily
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
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Environment Agency Conditional Licence (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence)