BDS Corporate Members

CONTACT: Philip Laws

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1733 414100

WEBSITE: www.anglianwater.co.uk

Anglian Water is geographically the largest water company in England and Wales, providing water and sewerage across East Anglia and the East Midlands as well as supplying water to the area around Hartlepool. Operating in the driest region of Britain with around 600 mm of rain in a year, the region's water resources are split equally between surface and groundwater sources. Anglian Water has 36 reservoirs under the Reservoirs Act with the most notable being Rutland, Grafham and Alton Water.

CONTACT: Peter Kelham

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)113 242 8498

WEBSITE: www.arup.com

Arup was formed in 1946 and is a global firm of consulting engineers, planners and scientists with a specialist water consultancy providing excellence in water and environmental engineering. Arup have a proven track record in the inspection, monitoring and supervision of existing reservoirs. Arup also have expertise in investigation, feasibility, design and construction supervision of new dams, as well as the design of remedial and improvement works to existing dams. Dam projects have been undertaken worldwide for central and local government, international funding agencies, privatised water utility companies, banks and design and build contractors. Arup has also undertaken work for research organisations including CIRIA, the DETR and others, and produced guides on many aspects of dam and reservoir design and maintenance.

CONTACT: Andy Hughes

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1372 756287

WEBSITE: www.atkinsglobal.com

Atkins, the largest consultancy in the UK with more than 16 000 staff worldwide, is an international, multi-disciplinary consultancy with over 100 years' experience of dam engineering. Atkins offers the full range of services associated with dam engineering including new dams for water supply, flood alleviation, river regulation, irrigation and hydropower, repairs and upgrade of existing dams, inspection and supervision under the Reservoirs Act 1975 both in the UK and overseas. Additional services are offered in risk assessment, particularly portfolio risk assessment, and training.

CONTACT: Andy Rowland

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1737 774155

WEBSITE: www.bv.com

The Black & Veatch pre-eminence in dam and reservoir engineering includes over 100 years' experience in the UK, over 7000 professionals world-wide, dams to 200 m and 8000 MW of hydropower under construction. All services are offered, from inspections to asset evaluations, and from design to EPC construction.

CONTACT: Colin Hunt

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)117 9665 881

WEBSITE: www.bristolwater.co.uk

Bristol Water plc, founded in 1846, supplies water to over one million people and businesses in an area of almost 2400 KM² centred on Bristol. It is a subsidiary of Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona S.A. (Agbar). The Agbar Group has subsidiaries in 19 countries, and provides services to more than 37 million people around the world.

CONTACT: David Brown

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1926 626127

WEBSITE: www.britishwaterways.co.uk

British Waterways is a public corporation responsible to Defra and the Scottish Executive, owning and managing over 3000 km of waterways, comprising canal and river navigations, reservoirs and docks throughout the UK. British Waterways is responsible for 91 reservoirs, mostly built between 1773 and 1850 to supply water for the purposes of navigation.

CONTACT: Rod Bridle

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1494 728833

WEBSITE: www.damsafety.co.uk

Dam Safety Ltd (formerly Rodney Bridle Ltd) has developed since its foundation in 1998 as an independent highly technical organisation specialising in dam safety engineering, particularly the performance of existing embankment dams. The new name, in addition to stating what we do, marks the beginning of our future as an organisation planning to grow organically, by merger and with associates to further assist dam owners to improve their dams and keep them safe. We are engaged in GB, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Ireland on a range of dam safety work including statutory inspections, design and construction, supervision of safety measures, review panels, reviews of performance and maintaining the safety of reservoirs while works are in progress in or close to the dams.

CONTACT: Ian Hope

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)8708 506506 (general enquiries on reservoir safety) +44 (0)800 807060 (Environment Agency emergency hotline)

E-MAIL: reservoirs@environment-agency.gov.uk.

WEBSITE: www.environment-agency.gov.uk/reservoirsafety

The Environment Agency is the enforcement authority for some 2100 reservoirs in England and Wales. Our role includes maintaining a register of reservoirs. It also involves making sure undertakers have their reservoirs regularly inspected and, when required, carry out essential safety works to reduce the risk of dam failure. We are legally required to report to Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government at regular intervals. This includes the submission of our biennial report, which outlines the actions we have taken to get undertakers to comply with the Reservoirs Act 1975 (the Act). It also documents the actions that we have taken on reservoirs where we are the undertaker. In addition, Defra has charged us with the role of post-incident reporting. This involves maintaining a database of post-incident reports and the dissemination of the lessons learned from those reports to the reservoir industry. Overall compliance with the Act has improved since the Environment Agency became the enforcement authority in 2004. However, our experiences over the past three years have led us to conclude that a review of legislation covering reservoir safety is timely and we are currently working with the industry and government to achieve this aim.

CONTACT: Ken Turnbull

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)131 311 4000

WEBSITE: www.fabermaunsell.com

Faber Maunsell is an international, multidisciplinary consultancy with a long history of dam engineering. In addition to involvement in over 300 dams in the UK, we also have extensive experience overseas, with dams projects in Hong Kong, the Middle East, south-east Asia and the Far East. We provide a full range of services relating to the design, construction, statutory inspection and remediation of dams and reservoirs for water supply, flood alleviation and hydropower.

CONTACT: Alan Warren/Jonathan Hinks

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1793 812479

WEBSITE: www.halcrow.com

Halcrow Group Ltd offer a full consultancy service in the UK and overseas in the fields of dams and hydropower. In the UK we offer services in reservoir inspection, risk assessment, remedial works, improvement works, dambreak and emergency planning. We have a long history of dam construction in the UK and over the last five years we have provided services in connection with several hundred UK reservoirs including planning, design and/or construction supervision services for over 40 new reservoirs.

CONTACT: Ian Carter

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1494 526240

WEBSITE: www.mwhglobal.com

MWH has over 150 years' experience in dam engineering and offers full consultancy, planning and design services in the UK and across the world. MWH has been actively involved with the design and construction of more than 300 dams and reservoirs in the modern era. MWH has successfully completed numerous storage schemes for water supply, flood alleviation, river regulation and has been responsible for the design of over 50 000 MW installed capacity of hydropower.

CONTACT: Jon Green

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)7747 642651

WEBSITE: www.thameswater.co.uk

Thames Water is the largest water and sewerage company in the UK, serving 13 million customers in London and across the Thames Valley. The area we service covers 5000 m², from parts of Kent and Essex in the east to the fringes of Gloucestershire in the west. Thames Water owns and operates 56 statutory dams and a further 450 smaller service reservoirs and flood storage areas throughout the Thames Water region.

CONTACT: Keith Gardiner

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)1925 537032

E-MAIL: keith.gardiner@uuplc.co.uk

WEBSITE: www.uuplc.com

United Utilities is the largest supply reservoir owner in England and Wales. We provide water and wastewater services to 7 million customers from Carlisle to Crewe and from the Pennines to the sea. We supply 2 billion litres of water a day, via 95 water treatment works and 40 000 km of distribution mains, from sources which include 155 open reservoirs.