Customer Comment from Veolia UK

 

Andrew Nash, Environmental Compliance Co-ordinator, Landfill Group:

"We have used EHS data's software MP5 since the beginning of the year to collate all our environmental monitoring data.  Prior to this we used an older version called Monitor-LT for over 5 years.

This data is collected from a number of operational and restored Landfill sites and is made up of both field readings and laboratory analysis. Much of it is collected to fulfil Environmental Permit requirements which are regulated by the Environment Agency (EA).

The transition from the old version to the new was relatively painless with EHS doing all of the data transfer.  MP5 gives us far more flexibility as it is server based and can be access by several members of staff at any one time.  The old version was based on one PC and therefore far less secure.

The database allows us to collate all the data in one place and for this data to be assessable to a number of key personnel in our Technical Support.  The data is used to understand the performance of the landfills over time and is also key in monitoring the site's compliance against Permit conditions.  The database allows us to assess all imported data against a vast number of control and trigger levels which are borehole/location-specific in many cases.  These limits are set for a wide variety of situations including groundwater quality/surface water quality/air quality and soil gas concentrations.  The permits require control and trigger levels being set to determine any deviation from 'normal' conditions and to assess against EAL/EQS.

As reports can be directly downloaded from the database, this means there is very little effort required to collate the routine data submissions to the appropriate authorities, including the EA.  The graphing function can also aid greatly with understanding trends when assessing control/trigger level exceedences or writing Annual interpretative reports.

In addition to the basic set up we asked for an automatic import function to make data importation more efficient and the compliance grid function which aids with setting new control and trigger levels.

In my experience the database is a key tool and we have several personnel dedicated to managing it and updating it regularly.  In the UK it is seen as the Industry-standard within the waste industry.

 

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