A steady water high quality monitoring venture has been the the winner within the ‘Pollution Mitigation Initiative of the Year’ class on the Water Business Awards.
Working in partnership with Meteor Communications, APEM Group managed a water high quality monitoring venture on the River Kent close to Kendal within the Lake District. The venture was carried out to assist make sure the safety of water high quality whereas handled water was discharged into the river via a short lived outfall pipe at a brand new location, following the injury of the unique outfall by storm Desmond in 2015.
Hannah Austin, Divisional Director – Water Science, APEM Group, stated: “I am immensely proud of the team that brought this amazing project to life. It’s great to see the tangible benefits to our rivers that monitoring data and evidence-led decision making bring. For APEM Group and our partners at Meteor Communications to be nationally recognised for this innovative work is a remarkable achievement.”
The WIA judges felt that APEM Group’s entry “stood out as both very relevant and innovative, while also presenting a positive message about pollution mitigation.” They described it as “a scalable solution to enhance pollution control and meet future demands, presenting significant benefits.”
A key factor of the venture was the deployment of Meteor ESNET water high quality monitoring stations, put in and maintained by Meteor Communications to offer real-time water high quality information each upstream and downstream of the short-term outfall. Meteor’s Managing Director Matt Dibbs, who attended the awards ceremony, stated: “We were delighted that the scalability of our water monitoring quality monitoring solutions has been recognised as these systems meet the river monitoring requirements of the Environment Act’s Section 82. This project therefore represents a blueprint for the large number of monitoring systems that water companies will establish in the upcoming AMP period.”
Additional info on the Kendal venture is accessible at https://meteorcommunications.co.uk/news-views/
