South Holland Internal Drainage Board
Despite the UK flooding in recent years, the South
Holland district - named so because it is an area
of low-lying land akin to Holland - has not been
adversely affected, largely thanks to the swift
action taken by the South Holland Internal
Drainage Board (SHIDB). SHIDB is in fact
responsible for the drainage of the 38,441 hectares
of valuable fertile land sandwiched between the
rivers Welland and Nene. In particular they are in
charge for the maintenance of sixteen pumping
stations and seven tidally controlled gravity
sluices connected to a network of 704 kilometres
of drainage channel.
SHIDB engaged Cougar Automation – a systems
integrator specialising primarily in the water
treatment business – in order to install a
monitoring system that would control 16
unmanned remote pumping stations of varying
sizes in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire,
from their central office at Holbeach. Cougar
turned to Sarian, a Digi International company,
whose mobile routing technology is now playing
a major role in assisting SHIDB in water-level
management.
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