Introduction to Wastewater Metering - Drain to River

Course details

Delivered by flow and metering specialist Andy Godley, this course provides meter (and meter data) users with a fundamental understanding of wastewater meter technology, selection, installation, verification, regulations, and how to improve the collection of flow data from drain to river.

Duration: 1 day

Delivery: In-person

Andy Godley

Andy is WRc’s Principal Consultant for Flow Measurement and Metering. He has a strong engineering background, spending over 30 years’ specialising in flow measurement and metering, across clean and wastewater applications. Andy has developed and presented training courses for regulators and water companies alongside sitting on several UK, European and International Standards committees for electromagnetic and ultrasonic flowmeters.

Course overview

This course is designed to increase delegates' understanding of the metering technologies used for sewage measurement, including:

What causes poor quality flow data
Different flow applications in the wastewater sector from drain to river
How the selection and installation of meters can impact on flow data

Who can benefit?

Delegates may include those needing to develop their understanding of wastewater meters and their technologies, meter data, regulations, and flow applications. Participants may also be drawn from any area of business or service where these aspects of metering impacts on their decision making.

Training outline

Depending on delivery location, examples of real meters are used to demonstrate and explain working principles. Course topics covered include:

General principles of flow and metering
Different types of metering technology used in wastewater metering (both open channel and closed pipe), how they work, where different types of meters are used and why
What goes wrong
Good practice for meter selection
Good practice for meter installation
Legislation and regulation (MCERTS)
Meter testing and verification

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Metering training developed for water utilities

This course was very informative and provided me with an insights into aspects of metering and principles I hadn’t previously appreciated. Very good two days’ education.

Course Delegate - 'Intro to Clean Water Metering - Source to Tap'
Northern Ireland Water

The detailed explanation of each meter type and their applications was very useful. Actual meters were available for us to visually inspect. This was useful as I had not seen some of them before.

Course Delegate - 'Intro to Clean Water Metering - Source to Tap'
Severn Trent Water

WRc's wider metering capabilities

This training course pools together our knowledge from decades of flow and metering consultancy services.

As the largest metering test house in the UK, WRc have expertise in the management of leakage; technology review and forensic investigation of meters; the application of smart sensors; and benefit/risk modelling.

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