Above: The Surfers Against Sewage Battlebus at Aysgarth in June 2024.
During 2024 Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) allocated a grant of £2,000 to Stop Ure Pollution. Besides helping towards the cost of hiring halls and rooms for meetings, printing flyers this was used to obtain several monitors/colorimeters.
Colorimetry is the use of coloured compounds to determine the concentration of a target chemical-compound such as phosphates. SUP now has colorimeters for phosphate, nitrate, ammonia and nitrate, as well as monitors for pH, temperature and suspended solids.
Thanks to the SAS grant SUP was also able to obtain a sampling cup and rods, sample bottles, cool bag and cooling packs (for samples), cleaning wipes, transport bags, standardising solutions, and sanitiser.