Combined Sewer Articles
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Isle Insights: Tackling the Challenge of Storm Overflows
Isle unravels’ the intricacies of storm overflows, exploring their impact on water quality, public health, and environmental integrity. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing the industry, from overloaded sewers to the urgent need for nature-based sustainable solutions. ...
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Why is the Environment Agency Investigating Major Water Companies?
Over the past year, business and residential customers alike have been concerned with reports that 11 major water companies have been discharging raw sewage into Britain’s waterways in a way that might potentially be illegal. With reports that the Environment Agency has opened a criminal investigation into the conditions at wastewater treatment works and the scale of how environmental ...
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The future of ammonia production is electrochemistry
Ammonia is the world’s most common and widely used nitrogen-based fertilizer in the agricultural sector. Due to the exponential growth in world population over the last 140 years, the demand for ammonia continues to rise. Besides its value in agriculture, ammonia has also received significant consideration within the hydrogen economy for its potential as a viable hydrogen carrier to ...
By Metrohm AG
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Unlimited Fines for Illegal Sewage Discharges?
The government has announced that it is keen to lift the £250,000 cap for penalties relating to illegal sewage discharges into rivers and the sea carried out by water companies, part of plans to “make polluters pay” that will include all sources of pollution, everything from sewage to plastics and chemicals. Water suppliers are permitted to discharge untreated sewage into ...
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ProVac 8.000 lt Combined Sewer Jetting & Vacuum Truck
Combined sewer jetting & vacuum truck is a combination of two processes that are used to maintain combined sewer systems. The first process is sewer jetting, which uses high-pressure water to flush out debris and blockages from the pipes. The second process is vacuum truck service, which involves using a truck equipped with a vacuum to remove the debris and sewage from the pipes. Sewer ...
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What you need to know about environmental targets - The Environment Act 2021
Under The Environment Act 2021 a suite of targets to restore and protect our environment has been developed by Defra. These targets address some of the biggest challenges our environment faces: air and water quality, biodiversity, waste, and resource sustainability. They also aim to improve our woodland and marine environments, and halt and reverse the decline of our natural environment. Two ...
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The New Professionals of The Industry 5.0
Industry 5.0 is already a reality, and the recycling sector is fully immersed in the transformation that this entails. While Industry 4.0 focused on the digitalization of industrial processes and the use of new technologies to increase business productivity and efficiency, with Industry 5.0 a new opportunity opens up. According to the definition developed by the European Commission itself in its ...
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Project - Northumbrian Water
Project Description Northumbrian Water provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England with 27,000 km of sewers and cleared 9500 blockages in 2019. StormHarvester and Northumbrian Water have worked together since early 2018 to analyse pumping chambers in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Northern England. This discrete network was chosen due to the location of ...
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Project - Wessex Water - Using AI to Detect Early Blockage Formations in Wastewater Networks
1. Background. Wessex Water provides water and sewerage services to 2.8million people in the South West of England with 35,000km of sewers, clearing approximately 13,000 blockages a year at a cost of £5m annually. In May 2020, amongst strong international competition, StormHarvester became a successful finalist in a 3 month smart sewer trial with Wessex Water in the city of Bath wastewater ...
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Sewer Alarm Technology to Reduce Flooding Risk
A new pilot project investigating how the in-home and environmental risk and impact of sewer flooding could be reduced through the use of alarm technology has now been successfully completed, in partnership between Yorkshire Water and tech company Technolog. The pilot itself was carried out in Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Doncaster, with the project winning the Institute of Water North Region ...
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The Importance of Chalk Stream Restoration
With the water crisis intensifying around the world in line with climate change, more extreme weather events, population growth, ageing infrastructure and water mismanagement, the spotlight has turned once again on England’s chalk streams and the urgent need to protect and preserve these essential water resources for future generations. As habitats, chalk streams are rare and valuable ...
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Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Dundee Flood Risk
A new flood management programme is now underway in the Downfield area of Dundee, with a feasibility and outline design for the first phase of the sustainable drainage project now finalised for St Leonard Park. This represents the start of a new storm water drainage strategy for the St Mary’s area of the city, developed in partnership by Dundee City Council and Scottish Water, alongside ...
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Merrimack Water Quality Study using UVF to Detect Hydrocarbons and Natural Organics in Merrimack River, Massachusetts - Case Study
Project Description: This study was performed to help support a customer in Washington State looking to distinguish if surface water contains oil sheens or bio sheens using their UVF-Trilogy analyzer. Bio sheens can look like oil sheens but are naturally occurring and are not caused by petroleum spills. Water high in organic content from algae, decayed plant matter or from bacteria in stormwater ...
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Linda Hustler Joins the EMS Team as Principal Water Quality Consultant
Linda Hustler has joined Environmental Monitoring Solutions as our new Principal Water Quality Consultant. She will be working with our clients to understand and develop the best solutions for their water quality requirements, while also ensuring that EMS provides clients with a technically robust service. Her previous role as Environmental Regulation and Modelling Manager has equipped her with ...
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EMS’ Marco Eulogi submits PhD thesis on benefits of the CENTAUR system
EMS’ Marco Eulogi recently submitted his PhD thesis, in which he demonstrated the benefits of the CENTAUR system through simulations. CENTAUR is a local real-time control (RTC) system, capable of mitigating urban flooding and combined sewer overflow spills. Marco successfully demonstrated the potential benefits of urban drainage systems, in increasing network performance to avoid spills, ...
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Smart Septicity Monitoring for Sewer Networks
Wastewater process control is increasingly complex as regulations become more stringent. The monitoring of wastewater quality plays a crucial part in identifying existing or emerging problems within sewer networks and new technological advances are transforming the future of wastewater management, offering the ultimate smart sewer septicity solution for sewer networks. Managing and controlling ...
By Coftec
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Subsurface Drip Dispersal Of Effluent On Steep Slopes
The treatment and disposal of sewage has evolved considerably since the early 1900’s. As populations grew the methods of disposing treated sewage were frequently redesigned. Engineers had to evaluate and adjust to local conditions, climate, rolling steep terrain and the availability of funds. Municipalities built in the earlier part of the 20th century were designed according to a ...
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What You Need to Know About the Environment Act 2021
The Environment Act 2021 has finally been granted royal assent into UK Law. Firstly, this Act establishes the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) as a new regulatory body for legislative enforcement regarding environmental ...
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Revamping the Smart Water Network Architecture
Established in 2010, SWAN’s five-layered model of a Smart Water Network (see figure below) is based on the following: The physical layer consisting of pipes, pumps, valves etc. The sensing and control layer consisting of sensors and actuators. The collection and communication layer consisting of data exchange and transmission. The data management and display layer consisting of ...
By SWAN Forum
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What does the future hold for Sustainable Drainage Systems?
The ability to mimic natural drainage and ground water processes, and deal with storm water at its source, allows Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) to be more efficient and sustainable. So what is holding them back? Sustainable drainage systems currently exist in construction guidance rather than policy, and does not reduce the costs associated with building properties, so it is not always ...
By Aquobex
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