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Environmental Approval

ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVAL

All Scour Control Systems designed, manufactured and supplied by SSCS are proven to be environmentally acceptable, and have been installed in the some of the most environmentally sensitive locations in the world.

They were judged in 1996 to be:

“Environmentally acceptable – the sandbank contours follow and blend into the river or seabed, and does not affect marine life or vegetable growth or fishing”.

~ Dr Krystian W. Pilarczyk, Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division, Rijkswaterstaat, Delft & Dr Ryszard B. Zeidler, Institute of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences.

SSCS has received the full approval for the use and deployment of its Frond Systems from:

  • DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs),
  • CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science),
  • US Corps of Engineers,
  • British National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations,
  • Hydraulic Engineering Division, Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands,
  • Institute of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences,
  • DNV (Det Norske Veritas),
  • Lloyds Register Quality Assurance
  • the major Oil and Gas Exploration & Development Companies, and 
  • the Renewables Energy Industry.