Barrow in Furness Council have announced planes to create a Memorial Garden to pay tribute to thouse who lost their lives in the 2002. Seven people were killed and 172 people were infected with the deadly virus. There will be two benches set in a public area with seven rose bushes planted to remember each victim. For More information please follow this link http://www.nwemail.co.uk/se/1.228313

Hydro-X supported the local community in Matlock by sponsoring the Rugby Club Beer Festival. They helped raise over £500 for the local Rugby Team of Matlock Town. The night consisted of Live Music, dancing a BBQ and many types of Beer to taste.

Hydro-X are helping some volunteers from Matlock as they are trying to reinstate a dentistry program in South America. In providing £1200 the volunteers from CENIT are hoping tooffer free dental care, tooth brushes and toothpaste to at risk children and adolescents in South America. CENIT also provides day care, tutoring and out reach services to children. If you would like to find out more about the work of CENIT please look at their website at www.cenitecuador.org.

Cider maker HP Bulmer and its water treatment contractor Nalco have each been fined £300,000 over a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. For more details please follow the link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7483569.stm

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has renewed its warning to companies to ensure that water storage and cooling systems are adequately treated to prevent the growth of the legionella bacteria – which affects around 300 people in the UK each year.

Warning comes after HP Bulmer Limited and Nalco Limited, who had previously pleaded guilty to contraventions of the Health and Safety at Work etc act 1974, following an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in Hereford that occurred in 2003, were fined at Hereford Crown Court on 1st July, 2008.

At inquests the Coroners’ court had directly related the deaths of two people to the outbreak and the Health Protection Agency had originally attributed 28 cases of legionnaire’s disease, although this figure was later revised to 26.

HP Bulmer Limited (of Ashby House, 1 Bridge Street, Staines, Middlesex) was fined £300,000 with costs of £50,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

Nalco Ltd, of Winnington Avenue, Northwick, Cheshire, was simultaneously also fined £300,000 with costs of £50,000 after also pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

Speaking after the case, HSE investigating inspector Tony Woodward said:

“There was a failure to institute and maintain an effective cleansing treatment and disinfectant regime for two seasonably used cooling towers, at Bulmer’s site in the Cider Mills, Plough Lane, Hereford. Inadequate management, by neglecting such an obvious duty of care, that can result in the health and lives of the public or employees being endangered, cannot go unpunished. The fines will also help to deter any repetition although this does not help the members of the public who were adversely affected and to whom our sympathies are extended. The fact that building users engage a specialist contractor does not mean that they have complied with the law; they must work with the contractor and ensure they are receiving the service required. Equally specialist contractors and sub-contractors must provide their clients with the expertise which they have been engaged for.”

Notes to editors
Section 3(1) of the HSW Act states: it shall be the duty of every employer to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety.
HP Bulmer Ltd had employed Nalco Ltd, trading at the time as Ondeo Nalco Ltd, a water treatment company, as part of the strategy to manage risk from legionella bacteria that could occur as a result of the use of evaporative cooling towers.
Further information on controlling the risks associated with legionnaires disease can be found at http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/index.htm
This information has been taken from the HSE Press release Website.

Hydro-X has matched the funding raised by students at the Rotherham College of Arts and Technology in support of Bluebell Wood Hospice and the Tickled Pink Charity.
Richard Sanderson and Patrick Loveday at Hydro-X like to support both local colleges and local charities.

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More water samples have been taken from an Angus leisure complex where the deadly Legionella bug was found.

One former resident of Piperdam near Dundee has died, and doctors have spent the day trying to contact others who stayed there.

Experts stress there is a very low chance of further infections.

Much of the Piperdam resort near Dundee has been shut down while investigators hunt for the Legionalla bacteria.

That includes guest lodges where a 60-year-old man is thought to have contracted the bug. He died later in hospital in Norfolk.
Parts of Piperdam have been closed
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People who stayed at this resort in the last fortnight can expect calls from doctors making sure no one else is at risk.

They are not giving interviews, but the owners have issued a statement. It says their thoughts and sympathies are with the man who died. They added that health and safety is of "paramount importance" to Piperdam, and they are co-operating fully with the investigation.

Symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease include high fever, chest pains, dizziness and coughing. It can usually be fought with common antibiotics, but sometimes it can kill.



Legionella has been found in a shower head and hot-tub at one of Piperdam's lodges. More water samples were taken this morning to be analysed.

Doctors are urging anyone with concerns to contact their GP, but they are stressing the risk of infection is very low.

Hydro-X has recently undertaken a series of three national seminars in Leeds Cambridge and Birmingham. With a total of over 300 delegates in attendance the seminars have been a complete success. Ken Ashley delivered two informative and entertaining talks at each seminar which the audience found extremely useful in understanding their responsibilities under the Acop L8 agreement and what went wrong in Barrow in Furness.

Feedback from the delegates can be found in the feedback section on the site. The next seminar is planned for the 13th of May at the Birmingham Motorcycle Museum. If you would like more details or would like to book a place for the seminar please contact us.