Verde Environmental Consultants & Oil Leak Clean Up Specialists

What is the future for monitoring Europe’s surface waters? New study assesses effectiveness and results from Water Framework Directive data

What is the future for monitoring Europe’s surface waters? New study assesses effectiveness and results from Water Framework Directive data A new large-scale study of data from over 8000 sites across 31 European countries has found that the monitoring of water quality and ecological risks has improved over time (from 2001 to 2015), but the water condition itself has worsened. The findings indicat...
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Impact of changing climate, land & water usage on Europe’s water resources – report

In this work, an assessment of the impacts of climate change on Europe’s water resources has been performed, focusing on the effects of 2°C warming. Climate projections from 1981-2100 were run through a distributed hydrological model assuming constant land use and water demand (year 2006). In this study, the 2°C warming period of five climate change projections was analysed. As a consequence of...
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Technologies for Monitoring, Detecting and Treating Overflows from Urban Wastewater Networks

In Ireland, the majority of urban areas are drained by combined sewer systems, which convey wastewater and stormwater in a single pipe. During rainfall events the capacity of the combined sewer system may be exceeded. A stormwater overflow (SWO) is a structure designed to divert excess flows from the sewer network, either directly or via a storm sewer system, to the receiving water. SWOs may als...
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Soil Recovery Waste Acceptance Criteria – EPA Draft Guidance Note

In December 2017, the EPA issued a draft Guidance Note on Soil Recovery Waste Acceptance Criteria. This guidance document applies to soil recovery facilities which exceed the operational thresholds for waste facility permits as set out in the Third Schedule of the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 821 of 2007) as amended. Facilities that exceed these th...
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Hydrogeology and Hydrogeologists

What is Hydrogeology Hydrogeology (hydro- meaning water, and -geology meaning the study of the Earth) is the area of geology that deals with the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in aquifers). What does a Hydrogeologist do? A hydrogeologist makes a significant contribution to the environment by working to better protect and manage ...
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River flow monitoring

Verde Environmental Consultant's Donal Hogan, Senior Hydrogeologist monitoring the river flows on the Dungourney River in Midleton, Co. Cork to run calibration checks on the automated flow monitoring station on the river on behalf of Midleton Distilleries.
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Environmental Consulting explained

What is Environmental Consulting? Environmental consulting is often a form of compliance consulting, in which the consultant ensures that the client maintains an appropriate measure of compliance with environmental regulations. Environmental consultants work in a very wide variety of fields. Whether it be providing construction services such as hazard Assessments or conducting environmental d...
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Water Pollution

There is a lot in the news recently on water pollution as water in hundreds of rivers, lakes, estuaries, groundwater bodies and along our coasts is failing to reach acceptable quality standards. Of the sources of pollution which are agriculture, domestic wastewater, forestry and extractive industry, the main causes of pollution are nutrient losses from agriculture and domestic wastewater discharg...
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Hydrogeological Assessment

Verde Environmental Consultant's Donal Hogan, Senior #hydrogeologist undertaking #groundwater #monitoring #well #surveying as part of a #Hydrogeological #Assessment for client in Co. #Kildare Hydrogeological assessments would typically be required for facilities in two instances: For facilities that have had technical amendments to their licence (IPC/IED/Waste) requiring that they assess t...
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