Download Rainwater Harvesting test – SWW

Project Name
Lead Organisation
Rainwater harvesting – quantifying multiple benefits including
business cost savings (mains water) and potential savings from
volumes not discharged to surface water drains.
South West Water
Contact details
Name
Outline Project Description Please describe the activity that
you plan to undertake.
Lewis Jones
Email
[email protected]
Phone number
01392 861064
Install a ‘hydromentum’ rainwater harvesting system on a willing
business or agricultural premises and undertake comprehensive
monitoring over a 12 month period to assess; volumes of
rainwater collected; business costs savings (from reduced mains
water bills); uses of water harvested; any additional treatment
costs; and quantify volumes of water not discharged to the
surface water system.
Extrapolate data for estimates of cost and volume savings at
property, development and other (regional?) scales.
Use ‘test site’ for demonstration/promotion purposes.
For more information see:
http://www.waterpoweredtechnologies.com/hydromentum
Geography – Where will activity
At a volunteered site in Devon.
take place?
Timing – Over what time period
will activity take place?
Partners – Who are the
potential partners?
Please indicate if partners have
been involved in the development
of the project to date, or if they
have yet to be approached.
Fit with Natural Devon’s aims
Fit with Natural Devon’s
priority themes - Please select
the primary theme(s) that your
Immediate start if selected/approved/funded – allow 6 months
for design, then a further 12 months for monitoring post
installation.
South West Water
Water Powered Technologies
DEBI
To protect and improve Devon’s
natural environment
To grow Devon’s green
economy
To reconnect Devon’s people
with nature
Commentary:
Naturally Healthy
Green Connections
Outdoor Learning
Primary
Primary
No alignment
No alignment
Primary
Secondary
project supports, as well as any
themes where the project makes
a secondary contribution. If your
project does not have a primary
theme, please select the
appropriate secondary themes.
More information can be found
at
Farming with Nature
Wood for Good
Resilient Wetlands
Sustainable Seas
Primary
No alignment
Secondary
No alignment
Commentary:
http://www.naturaldevon.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/Final-DLNPprospectus-jan20141.pdf
Fit with HOTSW LEP Strategic
Economic Plan Priorities.
Appendix 1 provides a summary
of the Priorities for Growth. More
information can be found:
http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/strategiceconomic-plan
Financials
Outcomes - Please describe
what you expect the project to
achieve in terms of
Environmental, Social and
Economic Outcomes
Please describe how your project contributes to the Heart of the
SW LEP’s Priorities for Growth (see Appendix A). Please list the
priorities where your project could make a direct contribution and
explain how it will contribute.
Text highlighted as appropriate below.
What is the estimated total
£12k
project cost?
What proportion of total project 40%
cost are capital costs?
Have you secured any funding
No
for the project yet? If so, list
amounts and sources.
In your view, what are the
SWW, WPT Ltd, DEBI and
potential sources of funding for possibly a small contribution
this project?
from the volunteer business
Environmental Outcomes:
Reduced ‘reliance’ on mains water and hence water resources.
Reduced volumetric inputs to drainage systems with associated
‘downstream’ impacts mitigated.
Social Outcomes:
Promotes Devon ‘green’ credentials and local innovations.
Economic Outcomes:
Cost savings for volunteer business.
Potential market growth/export opportunity for local technology
provider.
Quantifiable outputs - Please
provide any information you have
about quantifiable benefits?
Simple calculations for typical rainwater volumes on ‘standard’
house roofs – if applied to the proposed numbers of new houses
in Cornwall over the next 35 years – gives volumes equal to an
Please describe how these have
been estimated.
Consultation – What
consultation has already occurred
is more required?
Statutory Approvals – What
statutory approvals will be
required for the project? Are
these in place?
Risks – What are the main risks
associated with this project?
impounding reservoir the size of Stithians near Truro, per annum.
This ‘natural capital’ is then essentially lost back to the water
cycle but not without the potential for ‘environmental damage’
on the way, e.g. flooding and CSO discharges.
SWW have consulted with Water Powered Technologies who
support this proposal.
SWW have also raised the ‘hydromentum’ with the Chair of DEBI.
None. Site already operational in Cornwall.
WPT already have Ministerial support (Dan Rogerson MP).
People
Business
Place
Appendix 1: Heart of the SW LEP Priorities for Growth
Creating the Conditions for Growth Improving our infrastructure and services to
underpin growth
Maximising Productivity and Employment
Opportunities - stimulating jobs and
growth across the whole economy
Capitalising on our Distinctive Assets Utilising our distinctive assets to create
opportunities for business growth and better
jobs
The infrastructure and facilities needed to
support higher value growth:
 Specialist marine sites
 Science/Innovation infrastructure
 Maximising our environmental
assets
Infrastructure for growth:
 Transport and accessibility
 Digital infrastructure
 Sustainable solutions for flood
management
 Energy Infrastructure
The infrastructure and facilities to create
more and better employment:
 Enterprise infrastructure
 Strategic employment sites
 Unlocking housing growth
Creating a favourable business environment
 A simpler, more accessible, business
support system, tailored to our
needs
o Improving access to finance
o Stimulating enterprise and
growth
Creating a responsive environment, where
businesses and individuals can reach their
potential:
 Skills infrastructure and facilities
 Accessibility to
education/employment (transport,
careers advice and digital inclusion)
 Employer engagement and
ownership
Achieving more sustainable and broadly
based business growth:
 Reaching new markets (on-line,
supply chains, public sector)
 Globalisation (exports and inward
investment)
Supporting higher value growth:
 Innovation through Smart
Specialisation
 Building our capacity for innovation
Increasing employment, progression and
workforce skills.
 Moving people into employment
 Supporting people to progress to
better jobs
 Improving workforce skills
Creating a world class workforce to support
higher value growth:
 Enterprise and business skills
 Technical and higher level skills
development and retention
 Maximising the skills and
employment opportunities aligned
to our transformational
opportunities.