Waterway Monitoring Articles
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Temperature Profiling: A Key Tool for Monitoring Water Environments
The future of our planet and its inhabitants rests on the health of our water bodies. As climate change and human activity threaten the state of our lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans, temperature profiling provides us with a powerful tool to gain valuable insights and reduce the risks associated with these life-sustaining resources. In this blog, we’ll discuss a few uses of temperature ...
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BYU: After a Mega Fire, How Are Waterways Impacted by a Wildfire? - Case Study
Overview Utah continues to experience larger and more severe fires. Scientists from Brigham Young University are working to understand how these fires impact water flow, sediment, and TDS in the Spanish Fork ...
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Quit wasting time in wastewater filtration
Susan takes pride in the work she does each day. After all, without her expertise in the lab, the plants and animals that live in and around her community’s waterways could suffer. Susan is a Lab Manager at a wastewater treatment plant working in a specialized laboratory that tests wastewater samples, or effluent, which originates from industrial plants or domestic sewage. The sample ...
By Cytiva
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How to identify issues in water quality
Water quality can mean different things to different people and therefore depends on what standard of quality one is looking for, for example, water may be fine for fish to live in but lack the quality required for human consumption. To measure the quality of water accurately, tests are carried out to identify several key indicators. These characteristics are then compared to numeric standards ...
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Sludge Blanket Theory: Digging deeper
With over 50 years of design and manufacturing experience, we are rightly proud of our British-built environmentally friendly SludgeWatch 715 Sludge Blanket Detector. Our user-friendly design is highly portable, simple to use and along with its low cost has worldwide appeal. Things have changed somewhat since our first Sludge Blanket Detector was made back in 1974. No more messy man-handling of ...
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Hampton Court - BritishFlora design sustainable planting solution for
Royal Palace Waterways BritishFlora designed a sustainable solution for enhanced aquatic planting in the hard engineered waterways at Hampton Court. This is part of a wider pond and waterway restoration scheme across the Park to improve biodiversity, water quality, erosion prevention and aesthetics of these formal and natural water ways across Hampton Court. As an initial trial a 20m section of ...
By BritishFlora
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Developing a public information and engagement portal of urban waterways with real-time monitoring and modeling
Waterways can contribute to the beauty and livelihood of urban areas, but maintaining their hydro-ecosystem health is challenging because they are often recipients of contaminated water from stormwater runoff and other discharges. Public awareness of local waterways’ health and community impacts to these waterways is usually poor due to of lack of easily available information. To improve ...
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Environmental risk management: Leaving little to chance
Life is risky at the best of times. And identifying and managing risks – in the environment, industry and financial markets – has become a priority for business and governments everywhere. Everyone knows what can go wrong. Environmental accidents, corporate scandals and financial imprudence have rung up damage bills in the billions of dollars. So the heat is on to find ways to better manage and ...
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Environmental Risk Assessment of compost prepared from salvinia, egeria densa, and alligator weed
Approximately 70,000 m3 of salvinia (Salvinia molesta) was removed from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, during 2004. This study assessed the risks associated with applying compost prepared from aquatic weeds (AWC) to land, namely, survival and spread of aquatic and terrestrial weeds, eutrophication of waterways, accumulation of heavy metals and phytotoxicity. The ...
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Risk-based management of waterway safety
Considering safety to be defined as an acceptable level of risk, waterway managers seek to minimise risks in order to maximise safety. Failures in waterway operations result in events that may require emergency response. A proactive management approach identifies potential risks (events, their likelihoods, and their adverse consequences) associated with waterway operations, and identifies areas ...
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