Water & Wastewater Treatment Magazine
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www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | OCTOBER 2019 | 5 WILLOW TALK: United Utilities has planted more than 30,000 willow cuttings in flood- prone rough pastureland either side of the access track to Keswick Wastewater Treat- ment Works. The fast-growing crop will help to take up some of the flood water and will be harvested every two to three years to supply a biomass energy plant in Workington. QUOTE OF THE MONTH "We know that fewer than 20 per cent of our rivers are in a good state and that simply has to change. We must stop using our precious waterways as dumping grounds for sewage and farm pollution. And we need to be more efficient in our use of water so that rivers aren't sucked dry." Dave Tickner, chief adviser, freshwater, WWF WWT Water Scotland Conference 2019 2 October, 2019 Crown Plaza, Glasgow event.wwtonline.co.uk/scotland Hear where Scottish Water will be investing in SR21 and the latest innovations, infrastructure projects and sustainable growth plans for water in Scotland. WWT Drinking Water Quality Conference 2019 27 November, 2019 Hilton Birmingham Metropole event.wwtonline.co.uk/drinking An essential event for water quality professionals seeking innovative solutions to the regulatory and technical challenges facing the industry. WWT Water Industry Innovation Conference 2019 5 December, 2019 National Conference Centre, Birmingham event.wwtonline.co.uk/innovation The UK's most established conference for innovation professionals focused on embracing cultural transformation and game-changing technology in water. CONTRACT WINS nmcn has secured a framework for the design and build to upgrade major water treatment works in the South Staffs region as part of an investment estimated to be around £60 million. Welsh Water has named HBS New Energies, Absolute Solar and Wind, Centrica and Anesco as the principal PV contractors to deliver phase 2 of its Glas Advantage Renewable Energy Programme. Morrison Data Services has extended its meter data collection contract with Affinity Water by a further two years to September 2021. MDS – part of M Group Services – will manage the manual and automated collection of meter data from household and non-household customers across Affinity Water's central area. Veolia has been awarded two four-year framework agreements that will deliver new water and wastewater infrastructure for Irish Water. Under the contract, Veolia Water Ireland Limited will be responsible for delivering key water and wastewater infrastructure changes starting in 2019, initially with the water treatment plants at Lough Forbes, Lough Kinale and Smear. COMING SOON £350,000 South West Water has offered to pay £350,000 to the Westcountry Rivers Trust to help a Devon river recover from serious pollution that wiped out the local fish population. The payment, known as an Enforcement Undertaking, has been accepted by the Environment Agency as an alternative to prosecution and will benefit urban watercourses in the Plymouth area including the Tamerton stream. £156,000 Anglian Water has been ordered to pay more than £156,000 for polluting a Northamptonshire brook with sewage, following an incident in 2016. In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency, Leicester Magistrates' Court fined the utility £146,000 and ordered it to pay £10,676 in costs after it found the company's negligence and lack of maintenance were behind a number of failures at the Yardley Hastings sewage plant. NUMBERS