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Advanced water quality monitor installed in the Serpentine

Envirotec Magazine

Looking to find ways to keep improving water quality, the managers of the Royal Parks have installed a continuous water quality monitor; an ESNET (Environmental Sensor NETwork) system from Meteor Communications, as the company writes. Today, water is pumped from two boreholes from within Hyde Park. The Serpentine ESNET location.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

The dams also help to remove pollutants such as phosphates. However, other non-native species such as signal crayfish can have a detrimental effect on flood protection because they burrow into river banks causing erosion, bank collapse and sediment pollution. Monitoring NFM.

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US air pollution monitoring network has gaps in coverage

Envirotec Magazine

The lack of air-quality monitoring capabilities across the US affects the health of millions of people and disproportionately impacts minority and low socioeconomic-status communities, say researchers in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters. Thus, they will receive fewer benefits from the more stringent standard.”

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Los Angeles case study: how to prepare the grid for electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks

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Los Angeles is a hub of freight activityand (not coincidentally) the home of the worst ozone pollution in the nation. Fleet operators, CaaS (Charging-as-a-Service) providers and other stakeholders need data on where and when MDHD trucks currently operate, where future power demand will be, and how this demand will impact the grid.

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A fifth of global farmland contaminated by toxic metals, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers have mapped soil pollution at an unprecedented scale, finding that more than 17% of cropland is affected by dangerous levels of metals such as arsenic, lead, and cadmium. billion people living in polluted regions, experts warn that toxic metals in soil can enter the food chain, harming biodiversity and exacerbating poverty.

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Continuous metals monitor reveals environmental improvement opportunities

Envirotec Magazine

The transportable monitoring equipment. A new continuous metals monitoring technology was recently trialled at a river by a Talc production plant in central Finland. It is common practice globally, to monitor metals concentrations by sampling for laboratory analysis, and the plant had previously taken samples three times per week.

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First of its kind study examines the impact of ocean noise pollution on Ireland’s marine life

Envirotec Magazine

Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched last week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life.

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