Irish Water, working in partnership with Sligo County Council, has extended the Boil Water Notice which was issued on February 5 2018 on Lough Talt Public Water Supply scheme until further notice following a meeting with the HSE on 28th September.
Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency has said it expects drinking water to comply with EU standards by 2020 - 16 years after the original compliance deadline.
Irish Water has completed an upgrade to the Smear Water Treatment Plant. The investment at the plant included improvements to the treatment of the raw water at Lough Gowna which will assist in the reduction of Trihalomethanes (THMs) formation in the water supply.
Over 100 drinking water supplies in Ireland are in need of remedial works to avoid threat of water restrictions, according to the Irish Environment Protection Agency.
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.