Cavendish Laboratories, S.L.

Last June 21, dnota medio ambiente, s.l. approved the incorporation of a new company, called Laboratorios Cavendish, S.L. This new company, as of today, belongs to the group’s corporate organization chart, with the intention of being part of the segregation process of dnota’s current business.

Business affected by the Segregation

dnota is composed of the AIR, WATER, NOISE and FOOD Divisions, well, dnota will maintain the business of the AIR Division and also that of the FOOD Division, without any change whatsoever.

With respect to the WATER and NOISE DIVISIONS business, the en bloc transfer, by universal succession, means that at the effective date, all the necessary resources are transferred to continue with the same activity under the new corporate name.

The transfer en bloc means transferring all the related assets, all the employees that are currently providing services, as well as all the necessary accessory resources, such as accreditations, authorizations, offices, vehicles and everything that makes possible the production of each and every one of the contracts with the clients.

Segregation agreement

Once the new company was incorporated on June 30, the transfer was also approved en bloc, by universal successionof the part of the company’s assets and liabilities dedicated to the business of environmental analysis and studies in the WATER and NOISE sectorof an economic unit, for the benefit of the new beneficiary companycalled Laboratorios Cavendish, S.L.

Contracts with customers and suppliers

An essential aspect of our business is the link we currently have with all our customers and suppliers. Well, a communication process has been initiated to all customers and suppliers who currently have a link with the WATER and NOISE Division business, so that they can subrogate the contractual relationship and thus continue from day one with the operations, without any loss or damage.

Effective Date

The effective date will be September 30. This means that the segregation of the business will take place on that day, and on October 1 it will be Laboratorios Cavendish, S.L. that will operate the business in question.

La entrada dnota spun off the WATER and NOISE business to Laboratorios Cavendish, S.L. se publicó primero en dnota.

Barcelona Regional, Agència de Desenvolupament Urbà

During this month of May, the Agència de Desenvolupament Urbà, of Barcelona Regional, has awarded dnota, the works for the Topobatimetric Monitoring of the beaches of Barcelona, El Prat del Llobregat, Viladecans, Gavà, Castelldefels.

dnota is one of the companies at national level that has the resources to lead this type of hydrography and topography projects, and thus be able to provide our knowledge and experience in the coastal area to our clients.

dnota is one of the companies at national level, which has its own means to lead this type of hydrography and topography projects in the marine environment. This award is very important for dnota, as it consolidates its position as one of the most solvent companies in this type of services.

dnota, a company specialized in Marine Littoral control

dnota’s Coastal Department specializes in providing technical assistance services, such as studies, tests and environmental projects in the coastal environment. The value of these services is based on the accumulated experience of its professionals who, with their participation in numerous studies and projects over two decades, allow dnota to offer its customers a wide range of products in environmental and strategic consulting, coastal mapping and geographic information, marine resources work, etc.in coastal projects and services associated with the use of the coast.

Services offered to its customers

Litoral Marino’s business area at dnota is based on the accumulated experience of its professionals who, with their participation in numerous studies and projects over two decades, allow it to offer its customers a wide range of products in environmental and strategic consulting, coastal mapping and geographic information, marine resources work, etc.in coastal projects and services associated with the use of the coast.

dnota has a wide range of services aimed at the Marine Littoral, among them are:

a) Underwater inspections: planning, development and management of tasks in coastal areas such as underwater civil engineering, control of underwater outfalls, dams, breakwaters, ports, etc., as well as underwater physiography and ships and maritime structures.

Also dnota is qualified for Monitoring and Control of Natural Communities, Organism, Sediment and Water Sampling, Power tastings and sediment cores (corers), Installation and maintenance of oceanographic instrumentation, Installation and maintenance of buoy fields, beacons and seasonal installations and Underwater archaeological survey.

Visual Inspection

dnota has a staff of professional divers and its own material means for the development of visual inspection works for the Structural Control of pipelines and other underwater structures.

Among the services we offer, we highlight the filming through the use of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The
Teledyne SeaBotix vLBV300
is a vectorized mini ROV capable of lateral movement, fully configurable makes it ideal for inspection and light intervention tasks thanks to its small size.

It successfully performs work in the open sea and at depths of up to 100m.

La entrada dnota awarded the contract for the Topobatimetric monitoring of Barcelona’s Beaches se publicó primero en dnota.

La entrada The Xunta Xunta awards dnota the water quality control service for water catchments, emissions to the sea and reservoirs. se publicó primero en dnota.

dnota medio ambiente, s.l., has recently been awarded the Services Contract called “.SAMPLING AND DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES OF MACROINVERTEBRATES AND DIATOMS, AND CALCULATION OF THE IHF AND QBR INDICES IN THE BARCELONA DISTRICT (TORDERA-BESÒS-MARESME) OF THE CONCA FLUVIAL DISTRICT OF CATALONIA FOR THE PERIOD 2020-2024“tendered by the Catalan Water Agency.

249,284.77, VAT excluded, for an execution period of 5 years.

This award positions dnota as a consolidated reference in the development of works related to Water Quality Monitoring Programs at national level and especially in the control of biological quality elements.

The main objective of the work is the sampling and taxonomic determination of macroinvertebrates and diatoms, as well as the calculation of the QBR and IHF indices in the Barcelona Demarcation (Tordera-Besòs-Maresme) of the River Basin District of Catalonia, during the years 2020 to 2024.

These samplings are part of the obligation of the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) to establish monitoring and control plans that provide a general, coherent and complete overview of the ecological status and potential of the waters of Catalonia, and that provide the means and knowledge necessary to review the corresponding programs of measures and management plans.

The Service includes Field, Laboratory and Cabinet work to cover the needs of the ACA. It also includes additional studies(Invasive Alien Species and sampling for future genetic indetification using molecular barcoding techniques), as well as the preparation of the corresponding reports and exchange of information (databases and GIS).

With this award, dnota reinforces its commitment to specialization in water quality control, adding to other contracts won in other Hydrographic Districts of the National Territory.

La entrada Awarded to DNOTA the service for the Sampling and Determination of Macroinvertebrates and Diatoms in the Barcelona Demarcation (Tordera-Besos-Maresme) of the River Basin District of Catalonia. se publicó primero en dnota.

Hulius -with an aspirated h- lives in Galicia, as do Antonio and Irene. All of them are inhabitants of the Galician rivers, a population that during the last months have been censusing technicians of the company Dnota Medio Ambiente, with delegation in Cambre, to which the Dirección Xeral de Patrimonio Natural has commissioned the count of the fish species of the river beds of the community and, incidentally, the characterization of its waters and the environment. The team -Aitor, Alfonso, Elisa, Fernando, Irene, Jesús, Jorge, Julio, Quique and Rubén, divided into two groups of five- has waded the Miño and the Sil, but also the Eume, the Támoga, the Mandeo… In total, 124 rivers (72 in the northern area and 52 in the south).

As the work was nearing completion, the Grouper River was touched again on Monday. This time in a stretch where it is difficult to know if you are in Betanzos or in Abegondo, above the Cecebre reservoir. There, in an environment dominated by ameneiros, salgueiros, ash trees and a tall ventureira hops plant, the technicians are engaged in the same routine that they have previously applied in 280 other locations. The first thing to do is to delimit the work area. Nets arranged upstream and downstream mark the area to be explored. And then to look for fish. Perhaps more than one will be surprised to learn that electricity is used to capture them. Yes, the controversial electric fishing, authorized for this purpose, which is not precisely to fill the trout basket, but to know the abundance, variety and health of the Galician ichthyological resources. “It is a technique that does nothing to the fish, it only attracts them to the current,” says Mario Gómez, area director of Dnota.

At the head of the expedition, a team member carries a ten-kilogram backpack that holds an electric generator. This allows him, at the click of a button on a pole, to hypnotize the inhabitants of the place towards that sort of metallic halo that crowns the contraption. Those who enter, temporarily move to the trueles, which are carried behind by two other technicians, and then settle on a rejon carried by a fourth person. The last one in the row takes data on the bottom – if there is rock, if there is sand, if there is shale… -, on the water – oxygen, temperature, PH… -, aquatic and terrestrial vegetation, hydrology… Thus, zigzagging the entire course, they empty the river of its inhabitants.

And how do you get them to stand still to census them? “They are introduced in water with cloves”. No, not metal. It is a plant with a known anesthetic effect that relaxes and calms the individual while the team measures and weighs the specimens one by one. Eventually they return to the riverbed, where they regain consciousness and continue their daily lives.

Trout and fish in the Grouper

On Monday in El Mero they counted 87 inhabitants. All trout and sea trout -they doubted if it was a salmon, but it was a trout that wanted to make a splash-. And none of an entity that deserved a name of its own, because the team distinguishes the most distinguished inhabitants. “We name the specimens that exceed 50 centimeters,” says Aitor. It was he who baptized Hulio, a 66-centimeter specimen of trout – “a trout”, he says – which they found in a tributary of the Neira that they prefer not to specify so as not to give clues to poachers. That there are, there are some. And with those who have sometimes confused them.
Good fishing? “Razoablemente boa,” says Gómez, who, however, emphasizes that the data, thus, isolated, do not mean anything. “Ata que non se procesen non se pode concluír nada”. And that is something that is up to the Xunta: to know how many trout “polo río abaixo van”.

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/galicia/2018/09/13/span-langglcantas-troitas-polo-rio-abaixo-vanspan/0003_201809E13P60994.htm

La entrada How many pieces are going down the river? se publicó primero en dnota.

La entrada DNOTA MEDIO AMBIENTE is awarded the water quality control of the Segura Hydrographic Demarcation. se publicó primero en dnota.

An agreement between Endesa, the town councils of Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besòs and the Besòs Consortium has made it possible to carry out a project for the conservation of the seabed, the improvement of biodiversity and the promotion of environmental education.

This will give a second use to the structures under the sea that offer shelter and favor the habitat of hundreds of marine species, a clear example of Circular Economy.

Dnota Medio Ambiente, S.L. has proposed the action, within the framework of our environmental management of dismantling and demolition works of infrastructures in the maritime-terrestrial zone to ENDESA, as a good practice in a circular economy scenario.

Other work has also been carried out, such as:

* Executed feasibility study for conservation as a reef park.
* Adequacy project has been drafted.
* Use and management plan drafted.
* Drafting of a project for the execution of the project.

La entrada dnota collaborates in the creation of an underwater artificial reef park on the Sant Adrià de Besòs coastline se publicó primero en dnota.

The work consists of sampling and analysis of physicochemical and biological elements for the determination of the Ecological Status of the water bodies of the River Nature Reserves (RNF) of the intra-community river basins of the Spanish territory and the consequent proposal of measures for their management. The work has been awarded by TRAGSA.

In order to determine the Ecological Status of the NFRs, a series of samples and analyses of different physicochemical and biological parameters should be carried out for each of the water bodies. The results of these analyses should be conveniently stored in a database and subsequently processed and interpreted in order to diagnose the ecological status of the water bodies analyzed.

Given the potential
repercussions that climate change may have on the ecological state of river systems
may have on the ecological state of the river systems, the diagnosis to be carried out for all the NFRs should include observations that may be of interest for their management.

In the case of the biological elements of water quality, the work shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the sampling protocols established in the “Instruction of the Secretary of the Environment approving the protocols applicable in the operation of networks for monitoring the ecological status and potential of inland surface water bodies”, Resolution of 15/11/2013 (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment). Likewise, it will take into account the content of the
Royal Decree 817/2015
, of September 11, which establishes the criteria for monitoring and evaluation of the state of surface waters and environmental quality standards.

This work corresponds to the effort made to date, in the development of accreditation in different biological indicators by ENAC, and of course, to the broad scope of ENAC, both in sampling and laboratory that it has. dnota .

La entrada Diagnosis of intra-community river nature reserves in Spain. se publicó primero en dnota.

The tender awarded amounts to €1,020,872. The duration of the work is 2 years, although an extension for the same period is foreseen.
The contract was signed on April 3, and the work will begin during the month of May.

This work is added to others related to water quality control in other geographical areas, being this award one of the most important that DNOTA MEDIO AMBIENTE has managed to renew, since this service had been provided for 4 years.

DNOTA MEDIO AMBIENTE’s commercial strategy is focused on increasing the portfolio of recurring work, both in the public and private sectors.

The contract signed with Augas de Galicia is an example of this effort made by the company.

La entrada DNOTA awarded the contract for the Pre-Potable Control Network in Galicia se publicó primero en dnota.

La entrada DNOTA signs the purchase of the HYDRAENA, S.L.L. branch of activity. se publicó primero en dnota.