Model and data underpinning the Thames Tideway

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Dear Office of Water Services,

As many of us understand, the so-called Super Sewer is a) merely a method of extracting cash from Thames Water 'customers' b) not a sustainable solution, since of finite size.

Please make the following pieces of data available:
1. Location of sensors for outflow monitoring, at the initiation of the project, frequency of readings
2. Location of sensors for outflow monitoring currently and a three year's worth of data OR API access in real-time to the data. This is to enable some independent statistical AI work.
3. Equations and models relating to predicted outflows, those that were used as the basis to green light the 'super sewer' project.

I'm not going accept 'national security' or any other excuse for ducking this, the refusal will simply be handed to the information commissioner.

Yours faithfully,
Hugh Barnard

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Dear Mr Barnard

Please see attached an acknowledgement of your request for information.

Yours sincerely

Sam Collenette

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Dear Mr Barnard,

Please see the attached response to your request for information.

Yours sincerely,

Sam Collenette
Ofwat - Water Services Regulation Authority

From: Hugh Barnard [mailto:[FOI #528729 email]]
Sent: 26 October 2018 16:02
To: mailbox <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Model and data underpinning the Thames Tideway

Dear Office of Water Services,

As many of us understand, the so-called Super Sewer is a) merely a method of extracting cash from Thames Water 'customers' b) not a sustainable solution, since of finite size.

Please make the following pieces of data available:
1. Location of sensors for outflow monitoring, at the initiation of the project, frequency of readings 2. Location of sensors for outflow monitoring currently and a three year's worth of data OR API access in real-time to the data. This is to enable some independent statistical AI work.
3. Equations and models relating to predicted outflows, those that were used as the basis to green light the 'super sewer' project.

I'm not going accept 'national security' or any other excuse for ducking this, the refusal will simply be handed to the information commissioner.

Yours faithfully,
Hugh Barnard

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