How to Prepare to Meet New Requirements for CSO Impact Monitoring
Webinar Overview
The 2021 Environment Act (EA) could require UK water companies to monitor water quality upstream and downstream of thousands of combined sewer overflows, to reduce the incidence of sewage spills into the region’s waterways. With the EA’s technical guidance pending, this timely webinar examines the EA’s targets and requirements related to CSO monitoring; the pros and cons of water kiosk and sonde-based monitoring solutions; and the practicalities of managing and sharing vast quantities of real-time water quality data.
While the presentation covers challenges and solutions specific to EA requirements, it also addresses broader implications for utilities worldwide contending with the effects of population growth and climate change.
- EA requirements under the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan
- Pros and cons of proposed monitoring solutions:
- Kiosk and flow cell
- Sonde deployment
- Parameters: What can we measure?
- Data access, management and use
- Water company managers and operators
- Environment managers
- Environmental technicians
- Instrumentation specialists
- Consultants
- Engineers
Presenter: Kayleigh Smith and David Claridge
Kayleigh Smith is an In-Situ Sales Manager for the UK and Scotland and has worked in the industry for more than 17 years, selling, using and supporting equipment for groundwater and surface water monitoring and sampling. Her no-nonsense approach and expert advice have led to working relationships with some of the environmental sector’s biggest names.
Kayleigh trained at the Nielsen Environmental Field School in New Mexico where she became a Groundwater Monitoring Specialist. She is a member of IAH and has presented at WWEM, Contamination Expo, SWIG and CIRIA. She has also appeared on BBC News as an Independent Water Monitoring expert and is the curator/host of Thursday Focus Group, a biweekly focus group on leading environmental topics.
David Claridge
David is the Business Development Manager for Environmental Monitoring Services Water and Wastewater division. He has worked for more than 35 years in the industrial automation industry, with emphasis on the water industry. Having worked for a Water Company, their agencies and suppliers to the industry, David has an excellent technical knowledge and is skilled in process control, water and wastewater treatment, instrumentation, and measurement, with an extensive and varied background covering all aspects of the water and wastewater industry including storm overflow design.
David was a founding member and Director of the Water Monitoring Association (WMA), held a rotation as Chairman of the Energy Industries Council (EIC) Water Committee, was a member of the DTi Steering Committee for the flow programme relating to MCERT's, and was a member of several UK CEN working groups.