YORKSHIRE Water is trialling new technology which it hopes will help reduce the number of bursts – and speed-up repairs where incidents do occur. The company has teamed-up with R2M Limited to pilot 34 remote battery-powered ‘actuators’ – which mean water flows can be managed centrally from a control room. As well as saving time, it’s estimated that costs will be slashed by thousands of pounds. Sarah Gledhill, innovation project manager with Yorkshire Water, said: “Using the remote battery-powered actuators has already seen us save time and money – and has allowed us to redeploy colleagues who would usually operate the valves manually.
This Wednesday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. the Florida Gulf Coast University Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is hosting a virtual presentation called “The Black Lives Matter Movement: Insurgent Intersectionality and Radical Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century.” It’s presented by Dr. Reiland Rabaka, Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.His presentation will provide an overview of the historical roots, core principles, political critiques, and social commentary of the Black Lives Matter Movement, particularly how the movement is grounded in, and grew out of, the black radical feminist tradition in the U.S.
2020 was bad year for manatees
Floodgates, locks killed especially high number By Adriana Brasileiro, The Miami Herald
Published: January 19, 2021, 6:02am
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3 Photos A manatee mom and calf seen Thursday gathering at their favorite cold-weather spot: the warm-water outflows from Florida Power & Light s plant in Riviera Beach, Fla. (GREG LOVETT/The Palm Beach Post) Photo Gallery
MIAMI In a year when a third of manatee fatalities in Florida were not investigated because COVID-19 restrictions limited necropsies and boat strikes once again topped deaths caused by humans, one indicator stood out: manatees killed by floodgates and locks.
Of a total of 619 deaths in Florida’s waterways last year, 10 manatees were crushed or drowned in flood-control structures, according to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s preliminary mortality report. It may seem like a small number compared with the 90 animals that died after being hit by boats. Bu
Newly written draft language for proposed boater safety legislation may help protect threatened manatees from being killed by boat strikes.
Last year, 593 manatees were found dead in Florida. Of those, an estimated 90 died after boat strikes, according to preliminary data from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That means 15 percent died from boat-related injuries. But that percentage could be higher.
Due to “pandemic-related limitations,” nearly 200 of the total reported deaths were not investigated, so no cause of death was given, according to the agency s preliminary 2020 manatee mortality data.
Overall, total deaths were slightly higher this year compared to 2019 s 564 reported deaths.