Cura Terrae provides an end-to-end service from pre-deployment, designing and building your systems, providing real-time data, through to your monitor maintenance and calibration.
Using scalable processes, we are addressing the emerging difficulties attached to one of the biggest monitoring challenges that the wastewater industry has ever encountered.
Client Benefits
- Receive future-proof monitoring – adaptable to emerging regulatory requirements
- Operational efficiencies – dynamic maintenance programmes reduce downtime and deliver cost efficiencies
- Trusted data – QA/QC processes, including from UKWIR collaborations, ensures trusted
- Sustainability and safety first – optimised use of resources and minimised health & safety risks
What is our Section 82 service?
Our work is underpinned by a framework of defined, scalable, and quality-assured processes. This ensures consistent delivery while retaining the flexibility to adapt to projects of any scope or complexity. Resource requirements are functionally derived, with skilled operatives assigned at each critical stage of the programme lifecycle – from initial surveys through to installation, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance.
Pre Deployment
Getting it right starts before installation
- Desktop studies to assess mixing zones, hydraulic viability, and potential risks
- Hierarchy of site selection: safety, access, connectivity, hydrology, signal and power
- Surveys and permissions including EIAs, CEMPs, and all permitting requirements.
- Managing challenges such as land access and protected species
- Unlocking opportunities through clustering and streamlined permitting
Design & Build
Systems designed for resilience, performance, and future growth
- Modular kiosks and in-river systems designed to WIMES standards
- Secure, flexible, minimal footprint solutions with power and access built-in
- eDAS Hub and Gateway for telemetry, control, and secure data transfer
- High-specification sondes (AquaTROLL 800) delivering multi-parameter monitoring with anti-fouling design
- Innovation-driven product development with robust supply chain management Installation
- Delivered safely, securely, and consistently
- Pre-installation surveys, FAT/SAT processes, and commissioning
- Civil engineering and CDM-compliant construction
- Anchoring, biosecurity, and security controls
- Defined installation methodology supported by detailed
Maintenance
Ensuring ongoing reliability through proactive care
- Scheduled servicing every 4 weeks: cleaning, sensor calibration in line with ISO17025 , sensor replacement, and battery checks
- Dynamic maintenance driven by daily data review and AI-informed scheduling
- Spot checks using reference instruments for quality assurance
- Comprehensive service reporting for full traceability
Calibration
Consistency and traceability for peace of mind
- ISO9001-certified processes (ISO17025 accreditation in progress)
- Factory calibration across full operating ranges
- Solid-state sensors to reduce drift and extend calibration intervals
- Refillable reference reservoirs for ammonium and pH sensors
- Calibration records stored on each sensor for portability and traceability
Data
Real-time data and contextual information
- Real-time validation and verification in line with DEFRA guidance
- AI-enabled sensor health monitoring for proactive Interventions
- Virtually unlimited data storage with secure MS Azure architecture
- Two-way telemetry for configuration, diagnostics, and decision support
- Transparent reporting to regulators and stakeholder
Extending Capability
Our solutions are designed to adapt as requirements evolve, ensuring resilience against future regulatory, operational, and environmental demands.
- By combining award-winning innovation with practical applications, we enable clients to stay ahead.
- Flexible systems allow new and existing parameters to be monitored as regulatory requirements expand
- Proven innovation supports operational efficiency, delivering accurate, high-quality data that underpins compliance and decision-making
- Ongoing trials of emerging technologies ensure readiness for new challenges in water quality management
Why Cura Terrae?
- Nationwide coverage – Our extensive geographic reach enables rapid response times, minimises travel requirements, and strengthens programme efficiency from both an operational and sustainability perspective. Our experience across site inspections, equipment installations, and maintenance activities is supported by our strategically located field teams across the UK.
- Our approach is informed by decades of experience – With more than 15 years of experience delivering Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM) projects, you can rest assured our operational model has already been refined to optimise resource utilisation and enhance delivery efficiency.
- Trusted across the UK to deliver CWQM – We have delivered over 250 monitoring systems to support compliance, protect rivers, and provide reliable data for decision-making for projects such as:
- UKWIR Continuous Water Quality Investigations – Estuarine and Coastal
- Northumbrian Water’s River Pledge Framework
- Thames Water Intermittent Studies
- Innovation & Technological Advancement – We have a proven track record of adapting to evolving technologies and incorporating cutting-edge solutions.
Clients can:
- Be ready to measure new parameters and improve accuracy in existing monitoring
- Enhance operational efficiency and deliver cost savings
- Build resilience that ensures systems remain future-ready as technology and regulatory requirements change
- Leverage our award-winning adopted, incremental, and disruptive innovation
Our track record
Our projects have been recognised for pioneering solutions and practical impact:
- CENTAUR® – CSO spill control (WIA 2018 and Solar Impulse Solution)
- IRONMAN® – Optimisation of ferric dosing for phosphate removal (WIA 2020)
- SMART Sewer® – Sewer blockage detection
- Water quality trials of current and emerging technologies and alternative approaches
- Pipebots Patrol OFWAT Innovation Fund
What does Section 82 mean for WaSCs in 2026?
Water companies must have started implementing continuous water-quality monitoring systems at their discharge points. This involves installing water-quality sondes upstream and downstream of storm overflows and sewage-works discharges.
They must first focus on “high-priority” sites (e.g. sensitive watercourses, protected habitats, bathing-water catchments) and must plan to eventually complete full coverage.
For WaSCs in 2026, Section 82 means a major operational commitment: They must install and maintain continuous water-quality monitoring across many discharge sites, build data-collection and reporting systems, and gradually scale up to full compliance over the coming years.
Technology deployment, calibration, maintenance, managing site access, planning permission, and data publication infrastructure will require expert input and defined processes.
