A team of ESI employees (along with some friends and family) will be climbing Cadair Berwyn, a mountain in North Wales on the 8th of June. The cause is the provision of sanitation and safe water supplies to Rural Nepalese villages. The round trip is expected to take approximately 4/5 hrs and we plan to …
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In March 2013 the High Court has ruled that Thames Water was guilty of the criminal offence of unlicensed depositing of controlled waste after sewage escaped into properties and onto a main road in Bromley in 2003. This highlights the need for Water companies to take necessary precautions to avoid sewage spills. As the above …
Read more »ESI is currently modelling groundwater in the Birmingham Aquifer for the Environment Agency The Environment Agency is funding a project to develop a groundwater model of the sandstone aquifer that underlies much of Birmingham. A conceptual model has already been developed that collates and interprets available groundwater and surface water data for the study area. …
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ESI Director and our water group Principal Mike Streetly, recently celebrated his birthday with what must be a totally unique birthday cake ”“ baked by his wife Heather, a leading Hydrogeological Modeller here at ESI. The cake displayed a very interesting cross section of some Permo-Triassic Cakeology and even came with its own summary of …
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Many of our websites readers will be familiar with the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and how this is affecting almost all aspects of the management of rivers and their catchments (if not, some useful links are provided at the end of this article). The general objective of the WFD is to achieve …
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ESI’s March social event saw members of the team out on the Long Mynd in South Shropshire on Saturday 9th March. Despite snow and freezing temperatures over 20 of the consultancy team and their families enjoyed the beauty of the Mynd before a well-deserved pub lunch. Employees of ESI along with friends and family met …
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ESI’s latest appointment of Barnaby Harding as a Principal Consultant is the 11th new appointment in as many months. Barnaby will be joining ESI’s rapidly expanding sustainability team based out of ESI’s Shrewsbury office. Barnaby graduated in geology from the University of Edinburgh in 1993, and was awarded a Masters degree in hydrogeology from the …
Read more »ESI’s consultant Tim Taylor is now an approved trainer for the National Water Hygiene card scheme, following his successful audit by an EUSR examiner. Any person working on restricted operations sites for the water supply companies that operate in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland must be in possession of a National Water Hygiene card. …
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Make good contacts, discuss business opportunities at the Shropshire Curry Club. A relaxed informal event to meet and make contacts involved in Shropshire property development. Everyone has something to gain from spending a couple of hours discussing the issues we are facing and hearing how others may have found solutions or perhaps how they could …
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ESI has renewed their technical membership of Cl:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments. ESI is keen to support CL:AIRE the independent, not for profit organisation established to stimulate the regeneration of contaminated land in the UK by raising awareness of and confidence in practical, sustainable remediation technologies. CL:AIRE is the UK’s respected independent body …
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