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28 WET NEWS AUGUST 2015 FORESIGHT Coming up • Write a caption Drainage survey camera technology provided by Lanes Group has been used to carry out a structural inspection of one of the deepest railway tunnel shafts in the UK. A CCTV drainage survey team supported the inspection of the 120m ventilation shaft for the Ffestiniog tunnel on the Conwy Valley Line in Snowdonia. It recorded HD quality video footage of the oval brick and stone shaft that could then be viewed by civil engineers as part of a planned maintenance programme. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by August 17, 2015. The best captions will be published in the September 2015 issue of WET News. Integrated Water Resources Management Holiday Inn, Birmingham City Centre September 16, 2015 www.wwt-environment.net The Integrated Water Resources Management Conference will examine the challenges of balancing economics and the environment. This one-day event will provide a timely opportunity to consider the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Water Industry Energy & Carbon Management Holiday Inn, Birmingham City Centre September 17, 2015 www.wwt-energy.net Maximising energy efficiency and recovery opportunities in AMP6, and investment in efficient infrastructure to deliver cost-effective and sustainable projects will be among the major wwwwchallenges addressed at the conference. Sensing in Water 2015 September 23-24, 2015 Nottingham Belfry www.swig.org.uk The conference will explore using sensors and instrumentation to help deliver water company outcomes in AMP6 and over the next 25 years. Topics to be covered include communications, potable water treatment and distribution, monitoring, and managing assets. Water Scotland Crowne Plaza, Glasgow October 7, 2015 www.wwt-scotland.net The conference and exhibition will look at the results of the SR15 process and how its delivery is developing for the next six years. HAVE YouR SAY Some technologies last forever. They go on and on – for years and years. All that's needed is occasional service, and after decades of service, maybe a retrofit or an upgrade. This is case for thousands of Alfa Laval Ashbrook Simon-Hartley distributors in sewage treatment works. Do your distributors still operate effectively allowing you to meet your effluent discharge standards? If you need higher capacity, a major overhaul or new distributors we can engineer and supply the optimum solution for your plant – and ensure minimum downtime. We are here to help you – now as a part of Alfa Laval. Alfa Laval UK · Water & Waste Treatment Tel. 01276 633 833 · general.uk@alfalaval.com Time for an upgrade or a retrofit? We want more of your voices in WET News. Give us your views and thoughts on the following subjects and statements. Jot them down on an email and send to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by August 17, 2015 and we will publish a collection of them in the September 2015 edition of WET News. Please state if you are happy to be named, use an alias or would prefer to remain anonymous. Who changed your professional life? Contractors and the water companies are taking on apprentices as the sector acts to meet future skills demand. Who was the person that changed your professional life? (e.g school teachers; colleagues, CEOs) I have never... While installing a water meter, I have never... What was the best decision you ever made? The decision has finally been made on who will be the Infrastructure Provider to finance and build the Thames Tideway Tunnel. What was the best decision you ever made? I have never... While working on a treatment works, I have never... Last month's best answers "When I said 'take the tube' I didn't mean literally!" Mark Gregory, Morgan Marine 'It's a Knockout' pilot programme found in BBC archives. Paul King, Haydn Evans Consulting "PMP rescuing your cat, Mrs Jones. Does he scratch strangers?" Bill Foster

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