Groundwater risk assessment for your environmental permit
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How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When the Environment Agency will do your risk assessment for you
- Develop your conceptual model
- What your model should show
- How to carry out a desk study
- Water features survey
- Sources, pathways and receptors
- Research the source
- Understand the pathways
- Effective rainfall and recharge
- Drainage, flood risk and surface water features
- Geology and hydrogeology
- Character and importance of the aquifer
- Direction and rate of groundwater flow
- Identify the receptors
- Carry out a site investigation
- How to present your conceptual model
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Groundwater risk assessment for your environmental permit’ (updated 31 July 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026