Nationwide Quarry Monitoring Solution to Meet New EPR/MCERTS Regulations - Rob Stevens

Like so many areas within the mining/aggregate sector, quarries have limited lifespans and therefore long-term investment in plant is not the best economic choice and as such every installation is chosen locally on its merits with cost being the predominant factor. However, with the recent developments in EPR and MCERTS legislation, companies now have to look hard and long at their monitoring solutions and evolve from a short- to longer term approach.

RS Hydro have recently secured a contract to supply, install and monitor 250+ flow monitoring installations across the UK for CEMEX, a leading supplier of cement, readymix and aggregates. RS Hydro, a leading total solutions provider and distributor in the UK process and environmental sectors are providing a solution including all measurement equipment centred around the Siemens SITRANS range of

electromagnetic / open channel flow meters and Adcon’s AddWAVE radio and GPRS telemetry logging system.

The contract is believed to be the largest of its type in the UK and comes from the recent developments in the Water Framework Directive (WFD), Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) and MCERTS. The new legislation is driving the need to monitor activities regulated by Environmental Permits and this is creating challenges for businesses in a range of industrial sectors. The RS Hydro package provides a complete solution. “In its tendering process CEMEX demonstrated its forward thinking approach to solving new regulation challenges and embracing modern technology to produce cost effective solutions to increasingly complex compliance management and monitoring data capture.”states Rob Stevens.