This guidance provides information on how to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
The following sections within the guidance have been updated (named documents that have been revised are listed under their respective section headings):
Screening tests: freshwaters
– Freshwaters specific pollutants and operational environmental quality standards
– Freshwaters priority hazardous substances, priority substances and other pollutants
Screening tests: estuaries and coastal waters
– Estuaries and coastal waters specific pollutants and operational environmental quality standards
– Estuaries and coastal waters priority hazardous substances, priority substances and other pollutants
Source: Defra and EA.