Colne Catchment, United Kingdom
Water quality modelling and diffuse pollution identification
United Kingdom
Corporate & Industry
Nestlé (UK), Anglian Water
2022/3
River Colne
This project focused on identifying diffuse and point-source pollution across the River Colne catchment and identification of mitigation measures, return on investment and measurement and reporting. It demonstrated the scalability of the Aquascope platform.
Challenges
Identify diffuse and point-source pollution inputs
Transfer learning from other catchments to demonstrate scalability
Ensure meteorological and satellite inputs could scale to any location
Engaging multiple stakeholders on a single platform
Solution
Automated monitoring and forecasting system for the River Colne, now integrated into Aquascope.
Results
Daily indicators for oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, flow and temperature
Climate and land-use scenario modelling
Catchment live on the Aquascope platform
Conclusions and Next Steps
Validation of our early commercial pilots, confirmed scalability of the model and highlighted variables requiring uncertainty treatment when expanding to further UK catchments.
"The benefits of the approach Aquascope is taking was clear to us all... the solution you are building is definitely of great interest"
Matthew Ryan
Regeneration Lead, Nestlé (UK&I)
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