08 May 2024
This webinar will launch the research and report produced by CIWEM and Stormwater Shepherds UK, “Highway Runoff and the Water Environment”.
Sampling of highway outfalls conducted by Stormwater Shepherds UK in the North West of England, along with wider sampling and research illustrates that highway runoff is polluting watercourses extensively across the country. Samples are dramatically exceeding Environmental Quality Standards for Priority Hazardous Substances such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons and modelling suggests these are causing ecological harm downstream.
These discharges are not routinely monitored, feature high concentrations of toxic substances even at so-called “low risk” outfalls, and yet are not required to apply for permits by the Environment Agency. The work poses questions around these issues in the context of how highway runoff might be effectively managed, and presents a range of solutions and recommendations.
Part of the CIWEM Environmental Quality and Pollution series.
Register for 8 May 2024Jo Bradley | Director of Operations UK | Stormwater Shepherds
Jo Bradley has worked on many aspects of water management during her 30-year career in the UK. She has worked in a clean-water laboratory, been a Trade Effluent Officer, overseen Drought Plan development and taken endless sewage samples. But her passion lies in pollution prevention & control and she was lead author on some of the Environment Agency’s Pollution Prevention Guidance notes. In the last decade, Jo’s attention has been on pollution from urban surfaces and roads. She managed a joint Environment Agency/Highways Agency project to prioritise the highway outfalls on the Strategic Road Network in terms of their pollution risk, and she has worked with design engineers to create effective treatment schemes for some of those priority outfalls.
Jo was delighted to join Stormwater Shepherds in September 2020 and she is intent on driving pollution control forward in the UK, faster than it has gone before, so that we can achieve zero-pollution in her lifetime and protect rivers & oceans and all the creatures that live within them.
Professor Lian Lundy | Professor of Environmental Science | Department of Natural Sciences, Middlesex University London
Lian is Professor of Environmental Science in the Urban Pollution Research Centre. Her research has focused on sustainable stormwater management, the transport and behaviour of urban pollutants and the use of multi-criteria analysis a decision support tool at a national and international level.
Recent research has applied an ecosystem approach within an urban context and begun to consider the use of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as multi-functional ecosystem service providers within the context of water sensitive cities.
This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM.
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