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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Literature Review for Groundwater Activity Cost Benefit
- GBT Ref No: 121283277
- Deadline: 11 Jul 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
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- Description :
- Early market engagement is designed to benefit both those who may be interested in bidding for the proposal (when issued), but also to garner suggestions from a wider audience into how the technical approach could be refined and/altered. Project Specification The purpose of this project is to carry out a literature review of UK specific resources to evaluate what may be considered disproportionately costly in a necessary and reasonable measures evaluation for groundwater activities. Background Any discharge of pollutants which enter groundwater directly, or may enter into soil and reach groundwater, is a groundwater activity. Groundwater activities are regulated under Schedule 22 to the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 (EPR 2016). In accordance with the regulations, the Environment Agency must ensure that all necessary and reasonable measures are taken to: • prevent the input of hazardous substances to groundwater, and • limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants to groundwater so as to ensure that such inputs do not cause pollution of groundwater This is what we call 'prevent and limit'. Permit applications for groundwater activities must show that they can meet 'prevent and limit' before the Environment Agency can grant a permit for a groundwater activity. Defra's Groundwater activity core guidance to the Environment Agency recognises that 'prevent' is not absolute and there is a practical limit to what realistically can be achieved within the overall context of a...
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Purchaser : ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF United Kingdom
Email :lucy.snape@environment-agency.gov.uk
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