The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has announced it is investigating the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and the Utility Regulator over the regulation of sewage discharges into Belfast Lough.
A project to identify how Northumbrian Water can improve river and bathing waters in the Berwick-upon-Tweed catchment has been given an early funding boost with Ofwat go-ahead to accelerate around £50 million pounds worth of investment to reduce spills from storm overflows at Tweedmouth and Spittal by 2030.
NI Water is getting ready to start the second and final phase of a £5 million investment to refurbish century-old wastewater infrastructure at Lanyon Quay in Belfast city centre.
Irish Water, working in partnership with Sligo County Council, has signed a €9 million contract to upgrade the wastewater infrastructure in Rosses Point.
Irish Water’s investment in wastewater infrastructure is to increase to almost €400 million in 2020 as the amount invested in upgrading wastewater infrastructure matches the investment in drinking water for the first time.
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.