Water quality monitoring during construction work, Mersey Gateway, UK CASE STUDY Client Merseylink Consortium Project background The Mersey Gateway project was a major civil engineering scheme to build a new six-lane, cable-stayed toll bridge over the River Mersey and a 9.2-km road network connecting the new bridge to the existing motorway network. RSK services Much of the land covered by the project had been used for industrial activities during the last century. Consequently, a monitoring team, including members from RSK companies Structural Soils and RemedX and the wider RSK group, became involved in the project in 2014 to take pre-construction water quality samples; to undertake on- site testing in a mixture of borehole monitoring wells and surface watercourses across the sit

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