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The Alternative to Using Penstock Valves.

There is now an alternative to using Penstock Valves for water pollution containment – the ToggleBlokTM Pollution containment device which is manufactured and installed by David Coleʼs team at Penstock Solutions. If you are sourcing a pollution containment device you should expect something that is capable of stopping a flow instantly, easy to instal, easy […]

10 ways to save money on water pollution prevention.

As we all prepare to get back to work we are aware that the water pollution prevention systems that you implement have to be more cost effective and less disruptive than ever. This is the first of ten posts that will demonstrate the ten ways that Penstock Solutions could be saving you time, money and […]

Water Pollution Prevention News Water Pollution Special – Global Drinking Water Scandals

Water Pollution Special – Global Drinking Water Scandals Living in a first-world country with plenty of sensible regulations, rules, laws and guidelines in place plus an enforcement agency to make sure they’re met, you’d think our drinking water was perfectly clean and safe. It isn’t always so, and in other countries people are getting an even […]

Pollution Containment Device – Control Panel Explainer

Pollution Containment Device – Control Panel Explainer Hello welcome to another one our toggle block pollution containment device explainer videos, this time I am providing a little bit of an oversight into how the control panel for our valves work. This control panel operates all of our pollution containment valves from the 150mm valve right […]

Automated Pollution Containment Device – Flood Alarm Activation

Hello and welcome to another Sandfield Penstock Solutions video looking at our ToggleBlok system, this time we are linking the pollution containment device to a flood alarm or high level alarm. We are looking here at a situation where you might have flood water coming into your property, or into your business, and what you want to do is shut down the drainage networks to stop the below ground flow entering the premises and causing damage. Equally it could be an effluent treatment plant where you might have an overflow system and what you want to do is if that overflow ever gets the point where it's at the limit and about to discharge you are able to send a signal so the surface water drains that might be vulnerable to an overflow are actually able to shut down. Those are the sort of scenarios where a pollution containment device activated by a flood or high level alarm is appropriate. What we have here is a nice Euro Gauge flood monitoring system, these alarms are readily available and we use them a lot. Very simple we have three floats on this one, you don't have to use three floats you could actually only use just the two. So what I'm going to do instigate with this bucket, with the aid of the bucket how this flood alarm activation works. As I increase the water level we have three stages of alarms which will give us three warning lights, one, two and on the third - which is our excess maximum that will trigger the valve to shut. To demonstrate how that will work I'll take my bucket of water, hopefully I'll keep my head out of the way so that you can see what's happening. We now have an alarm on level one, we've got now an alarm on level two, now we'll get to the third alarm. What's happened here now is as we’ve gone into the third alarm we've instigated the closure of the valve. Now that the alarm has triggered the pollution containment device you will not be able to open that valve until the flooding issue has been resolved. That valve is now holding itself shut and even if the control panel is removed the pollution containment device remains locked and it won’t allow you to put in an open sequence until you remove the flooding or you remove the issue that has triggered the valve closure. So nicely and simply that's how it works. Exactly the same with an oil interceptor alarm, or any other device that is connected to the GSM network - it's the same sort of operation. So now I'm stuck with all of this water which has to be removed before I can open the valve again. I hope that was nice and simple for you explained a little bit of the technology that we design and instal to support our customers in overcoming their water pollution challenges.

Automated Pollution Containment Device – Flood Alarm Activation Hello and welcome to another Sandfield Penstock Solutions video looking at our ToggleBlok system, this time we are linking the pollution containment device to a flood alarm or high level alarm. We are looking here at a situation where you might have flood water coming into your […]

Containment Systems for the Prevention of Pollution – Supplement to CIRIA Report C736 (2014)

CIRIA have started work on a supplement to CIRIA c736 which was launched in 2014. They are looking for feedback from industry. If you are involved in water pollution prevention, spill containment, site or drainage design and you have feedback this is your opportunity to participate. The more feedback they get the more relevant and […]

Automated Containment Valve – Float Switch Activation

Automated Containment Valve – Float Switch Activation Hello, welcome to another Sandfield Penstock Solutions training video I’m looking today at our ToggleBlok automated containment valve system and going through some of the simple operations of how to operate it automatically. What you can see here is a 300 mm Toggleblok automated containment valve. We have […]

What is Environmental Advice?

Everything you need to know about water pollution prevention and Environmental Advice in about seven half minutes. If you prefer to read the transcript is below. What is Environmental Advice? Transcription Details: Date: December 18, 2019 Input sound file: https://youtu.be/1HgPLwCEJf8 What is Environmental Advice? Hello, my name is David Cole, and I’m technical director of Sandfield […]

Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations

Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations … Ireland’s river quality is plummeting fast. In Northamptonshire the cereals giant Weetabix has been fined £140,000 for polluting a river with thousands of litres of diesel fuel, threatening the lives of fish and water plants. Chemical spills are not as rare as you […]

Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and chemical spills plus more

Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and more Right now the Environment Agency is pulling out all the stops, working day and night to help people across the country affected by flooding. Every year we seem to be seeing more floods in Britain, and the biggest culprit is, of course, climate change. […]

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