The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a pre-tender engagement exercise on behalf of the Environment Agency for a new framework for the provision of services and works relating to property flood resilience.
The Environment Agency has completed the new £8.5 million Houghton Brook Flood Storage Area which will protect key infrastructure in Luton from flooding, along with some 600 residential and commercial properties.
The Environment Agency is progressing its plans to reduce flood risk in Byfleet and Weybridge area in Surrey, including a Flood Alleviation Scheme for the Sanway area of Byfleet.
United Utilities, the Environment Agency and Sefton Council have signed a joint statement of intent to reassure Maghull communities that they are continuing to work together to explore solutions to reduce the risk of flooding.
The Environment Agency has submitted plans to create a large ‘aquagreen’ to reduce flood risk to homes and businesses near Bransholme in east Hull for planning approvale as part of the £28.5 million Holderness Drain Flood Alleviation Scheme.
A £7 million beach management scheme will see sand topped up on beaches between Saltfleet and Gibraltar Point, reducing the risk of flooding for Lincolnshire's coastal communities.
The Environment Agency, working in partnership with Middlesbrough Council, has reached a major milestone in a £4.8 million Teesside flood scheme.
Leeds City Council has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of the River Aire to create a flood defence structure with two hydraulically operated gates.
The Environment Agency is getting ready to start enabling work on a £56 million flood alleviation scheme in Rochdale and Littleborough.
The Environment Agency is seeking ways to better protect up to 3,000 homes and over 1,000 businesses along the length of the River Severn - investigations have started into options to improve flood and drought resilience in the Severn Valley.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.