Hydrological Services - groundwater level measurement

Concepts

• environmental monitoring
• environment & business
• technical projects team
• hydrological services
• hydrological monitoring services
• groundwater level measurement
• monitoring of water levels
• plan of water level
• groundwater abstractions
• intended services

Location

Description

The East Anglia Area of the Environment Agency has established an ongoing Strategy for Groundwater Investigations and Modelling. The Strategy is being managed by the Environment & Business (E&B) Technical Projects Team which is part of the national E&B groundwater team. The aim of the strategy maintains and improves a number of mathematical model assets of all the significant aquifers within East Anglian and Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire area. The models are used to forecast potential impacts of current and proposed groundwater abstractions on the water environment, enabling water resource management decisions to be made with best current scientific knowledge. The hydrological monitoring services for this Contract are part of the data maintenance process and needed to define and validate the models. The data obtained will also be used to assist other Agency initiatives such as the Restoring Sustainable Abstraction (RSA) programme and overall abstraction management . The intended services are (including, but not limited to): - Monitoring of water levels at observation boreholes, piezometers, shallow dip wells and gauge boards. - Routine maintenance of all the monitoring points. - Installation and setting of extra data loggers on sites as required. - Provide a 3 month hand-over plan of water level monitoring to in-house Environment Agency Teams if this is required at any point during the contract - Provide a 3 month hand-over plan at the end of the contract to an alternative contractor if required - occasional stream gauging

CPV Codes

• 90711500 - Environmental monitoring other than for construction

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

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