Category: wastewater management
Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) in Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) applications
Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) in Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) applications has long been a priority for our water companies. They need to ensure that permitted flows are being treated at water treatment centres and that …
Biological wastewater treatment
There are typically three types of wastewater. ‘Blackwater’ is heavily polluted wastewater; ‘Greywater’ is a lesser polluted wastewater and ‘Stormwater’ is the rainwater runoff collected from roofs and concreted surfaces. When treating wastewater that contains …
Multi-site and large water users
If you are operating a large business with lots of staff or one with multiple sites, you are likely to be a large water user. At Detectronic we have a range of services that are …
Water pollution monitoring
Effective water pollution monitoring is a serious and ongoing mission for every UK water and sewerage company (WaSC). Done strategically and responsibly, water pollution monitoring can potentially prevent damaging sewage spills & pollutions, protect and …
Monitoring rain retention basins
Rain retention basins, also known wet or stormwater management ponds, are artificial ponds. They are specifically created to capture and store surface and stormwater run-off. This occurs where the natural capacity for rainfall to be …
waste water sewer network predictions
As the Environment Agency (EA) has described water companies’ efforts to protect the environment as “simply unacceptable”, it seems an opportune time to highlight that one of Detectronic’s key objectives is, and has always been, …
Managing storm overflows in AMP 7
Maintaining a good reputation is key for any business and none more so than companies that operate in the UK water industry. In such a highly regulated sector, Water & Sewage Companies (WaSCs) understand only …
Monitoring Flow to Full Treatment and Pass Forward Flow at wastewater treatment works
As we enter June 2019, UK water companies may well be reminded of the press release issued last June by DEFRA. “5 billion investment by water companies to benefit the natural environment”. In this communication …
Machine learning helps wastewater management
By Oliver Harrison, Sales Engineer Introduction Water authorities aim to transport waste water as cost-effectively as possible. Analysing the performance of the sewer networks is key for identifying potential issues developing in the sewer network …
Improving resilience in Amp7
‘Resilience’ and the delivery of ‘resilient’ water and wastewater services is one of the key words when it comes to preparing for AMP7 and resilience is a word that we’ve used for many years here …