Scottish Water has unveiled plans for a £1.7 million project to help prevent rags, wet wipes and other sewer related debris from entering an Edinburgh watercourse.
Yorkshire Water is investing £2 million to reduce storm overflows into the river Dearne near Barugh Green, Barnsley.
Anglian Water is set to invest more than £500,000 in the Hunstanton area to protect the local environment, prevent flooding, and improve the health of beaches and bathing waters.
United Utilities is investing £15 million to improve the water quality on a stretch of the River Roch.
All WaSCs (water & sewage companies) are under increasing scrutiny relating to unauthorised discharges to watercourses. The task they now face is an eye watering number of stormwater overflows that need addressing in the coming years.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.