How we can help you
Oren Environmental
Industry leaders in reed bed maintenance and large-scale desludging. With a full service – from consultation to delivery – to stabilise and optimise your wastewater assets.
Commercial Water Services
Commercial Water Services offers a whole range of water & waste management services across the UK to all types of organisations and businesses.
Aqualytix
Experts in the field of water hygiene, water treatment and Legionella control. We can help you safeguard health in your organisation.
MoD / Aquatrine Customers
Do you pay for MoD network water/wastewater services or wish to make changes to a water or sewer network? We may be able to help you.
Water Safety Training & Consultancy Courses
Aqualytix a part of Severn Trent offer a full array of City and Guilds Assured water safety training courses to suit your organisation’s needs.
Education Zone
We love to talk about our wonderful water, clever sewer system and how we help protect the environment! So, we wanted to share it with parents, teachers and of course kids too!
Workshops and school visits
Family days and community events
Educational site tours
Schools and college careers events
Activity sheets
Latest News
5 ways we take a sustainable approach to our reed bed work
We understand the crucial role a well-maintained reed bed can play in water treatment. We also acknowledge that reed beds are valuable ecosystems that provide a habitat for various plant and animal species. That’s why maintaining them requires a sustainable approach, too, to ensure their health and effectiveness while enhancing their environmental performance. Here are five examples of sustainable practices we use to manage and maintain reed beds, which often challenge traditional methods offered within our industry.
Improving treatment processes through desludging settlement lagoons
Desludging settlement lagoons Our client Our client is a non-departmental public body of the UK government. The location is a mine water treatment scheme in South Yorkshire. The two settlement lagoons – with an 11,000m3 capacity – form part of the mine water treatment process.
7 reasons why reed bed maintenance is essential
Reed beds are natural filtration systems crucial for conserving water quality. However, like any other wastewater asset, they must be regularly looked after to do their job correctly. Unfortunately, reed beds are often neglected until a problem occurs, such as a pollution incident. Alastair Pentland, Environmental Operations Manager at Oren Environmental, has outlined the seven reasons why routine reed bed maintenance is essential.
