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News Archive 2006 -2007

This news archive contains news releases issued by WRc during the past twelve months.

2007

October

• Europe's environment — the Fourth assessment
• Northern Ireland Water to migrate to an Oracle spatial based corporate asset inventory
• DWI/Defra awards NCET new contract to monitor perchlorate in raw and drinking water

September

• WRc commissioned by UKWIR to develop a water industry carbon accounting methodology
• WRc begin second phase of Portfolio research project, "CP310" -"Energy efficiency"
• WRc asset management win contract to assist Portsmouth Water
• WRc soon to begin new collaborative research project to develop best practice guidance and draft specification for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of geocellular underground SUD storage systems
• New Sewers for Scotland 2nd (SfS2) Edition now includes shared public SUD systems
• WRc in partnership with Brussels-based environmental law company, Milieu, renew contract to provide technical advice to the European Commission on the Rotterdam Convention
• WRc in conjunction with SBWWI and UKWIR run a seminar on ‘The Intelligent Metering Initiative’
• WRc is starting a three year collaborative research programme on the impact of using sewers for food waste disposal
• WRc provides technical risk assessment support to the Environment Agency and WRAPs  BREW funded project
• WRc commissioned by Defra to develop a new UK marine monitoring manual to support the United Kingdom marine monitoring and assessment strategy (UKMMAS)

August

• WRc Approved™ certificates for Bodycote, Hepworth and Pipex at IWEX
• WRc start a new collaborative research project (CP324) to investigate long-term performance of domestic meters
• UKWIR appoint WRc plc and Webree.com to produce a common national database of sewer and water mains failures
• UKWIR appoints WRc to identify the best methodologies for catchment based consents
• Environment Agency commission WRc to undertake national-scale assessment of phosphate stripping at sewage treatment works
• WRc host CIWEM meeting on treatment processes

July

• WRc asset management team win contract to assist Thames Water
• Sahara® goes to Australia to conduct a full range of trial surveys for Melbourne Water, City West Water, Yarra Valley and Sydney Water
• Sahara® working with EPAL, Lisbon, Portugal to conduct leak detection surveys
• Sahara® pipeline inspection carries out leak detection surveys for Fingal County Council and Dublin City Council
• Sahara® pipeline inspection carries out leak detection and CCTV inspection surveys for Veolia Water in Paris
• Portfolio research project, CP310 'comparing energy efficiency: where are we good?' has recently been successfully completed.
• WRc heads a consortium that leads the water-using products area of the market transformation programme (MTP)
• WRc completes major Portfolio project CP281 'using dissolved oxygen for real time monitoring of water quality'
• Italian water companies ACEA and HERA join WRc collaborative project CP310 'Energy Benchmarking'
• WRc complete successful multi-disciplinary environmental impact assessment for a major industrial client
• WRc's waste laboratory- further expansion
• Environment Agency awards WRc contract for development of the Ashford River Health Toolkit to support phase 2 of the Ashford Integrated Water Management Study
• New Portfolio collaborative research programme launched.

June

• WRc host CIWEM debate on food waste disposal and macerators
• WRc completes report on behalf of Defra and CLG on 'efficiency of water of new homes and workplaces'
• Sahara® complete inspection of 26km of water mains for Lyonnaise de Eaux de Casablanca (LYDEC) in Casablanca, Morocco

April

• Detecting oil in water – collaboration brings success
• WRc to develop asset deterioration models for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

February

• Assessments of biodegradation of the new SKIM recommendations
• WRc commissioned by Defra to develop a new UK marine monitoring manual to support the United Kingdom Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy (UKMMAS)
• WRc helps the Environment Agency develop summary guidance for Water Framework Directive (WFD) Programmes of Measures (PoMs)
• WRc asset management team win contract to assist Thames Water with water distribution deterioration modelling for PR09

January

• Impact on the drainage system of 'disposable' products

2006

December

• Defra awards WRc contract to survey N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in drinking water in England and Wales
• WRc is pleased to be a partner in TECHNEAU
• WRc host CIWEM meeting on treatment processes

November

• Sanipor joint sealing technique Gets WRc Approved™ certification