WRc trains more Enviroment Agency water quality planners

WRc has embarked on another year of training Environment Agency water quality planners in the use of some of the tools of their trade. WRc has provided this training for a number of years and almost 50 people have benefited in the past year with arrangements already made for a further three courses before March 2010.

The course provides an introduction to water quality statistics and includes statistical concepts and their application to water quality planning. One of the main tools of the trade is WRc’s software Aardvark that provides easy access to a variety of statistical methods with graphical analyses that can help answer many of the most common questions asked of routine environmental quality and effluent monitoring data, such as:

• Is the quality getting better?…or worse?…or more variable?
• Are changes gradual…or sudden?
• Are we doing enough sampling…or too much?
• Is the effluent quality compliant or not?

he appropriate analysis of environmental quality data forms part of WRc’s River Basin Management offerings. For more information visit WRc’s River Basin Management/Environmental Management and Data Services web pages. Aardvark is available for purchase, further information can be found at the Aardvark web page.