Safeguarding water five years on from foot and mouth
August 1st 2006

Five years on from the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis, an intensive monitoring programme to safeguard local groundwater and surface water sources from possible future contamination is underway. The Environmental Monitoring Division at Ewan group, is currently preparing to monitor a further 150 sites as part of the programme between Dartmoor and Hadrian's Wll, Anglesey and Essex. According to Ewan, this level of environment monitoring throughout the country exceeds anything that has been undertaken before in terms of the scale of the operation and the level of information being extracted from the samples taken from nearby watercourses, sprigs, ponds and boreholes. Ewan Group has several years experience of undertaking monitoring work across the country for the Environment Agency and water companies.

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