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Strengthen red route pollution monitoring to save lives, says London air report

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The London Assembly Environment Committee launched ‘Clean Air for all Londoners’ – a report on air pollution in the capital – on 23 March. A regular report should be produced on the changes in pollution on London’s main roads. And we have the stark evidence that air pollution is particularly damaging to children’s health.”.

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Advanced water quality monitor installed in the Serpentine

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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

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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

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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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Utilities should prepare ahead of mandatory monitoring

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Now water companies need to concentrate efforts on ensuring a smooth rollout of monitoring technology. The deadline is approaching for water companies to have in place monitoring requirements of the Environment Act 21. Where proposed sites do not have a power source, solar-powered systems are available.

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Continuous metals monitor reveals environmental improvement opportunities

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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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Trade effluent monitoring in Essex

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This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Pollution & Process Monitoring (PPM). Pollution & Process Monitoring (PPM) has engineered a bespoke analytical water quality system, to continuously measure the trade discharge, for the Basingstoke production facility in Hampshire.