Environment Agency - MCERTS

MCERTS (the EA's Monitoring Certification Scheme) will provide a comprehensive framework for industry for choosing suppliers of monitoring systems and services, which meet the Environment Agency's performance standards.

Of specific interest to the water industry and its suppliers is the monitoring of wastewater discharges and receiving water quality as a means of assessing the environmental impact of the industries that the Agency regulates. The Environment Agency is extending the MCERTS scheme to cover instruments for measuring:

• Turbidity
• Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
  
• Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
  
• Flow
  
• Nitrate concentration
  
• pH
  
• Samplers
  
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
  
• Total phosphorus
  
• Ammonia

The specifications for each of these aspects have been drafted by WRc and have been circulated for comment. WRc is currently testing products to these test protocols.

Details of the Environment Agency's MCERTS scheme can be found on their web.