In-Situ Inc. An innovating wonder since 1976

Our parent company's appearance on the "Worlds' Greatest" TV show in the US gave us a great opportunity to share some facts about its history and success.

In-Situ Inc. started life in the basement of its founder, Dr Chester McKee, in 1976.  Since then it has become a major driver of innovation in the design and manufacture of water monitoring instruments.

The company is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills. Colorado is the embodiment the frontier spirit of the United States as well as incorporating much of its pristine wilderness areas. This make it the perfect location for generating the kinds of new products that;

• Help protect the environment.
• Ensure adequate water supplies.
• Provide protection from flooding.
• Support the clean-up of contaminated sites.

In-Situ Inc. supports on-going research into water management including the Watershed Innovation Network project run in conjunction with Colorado State University. The company's instruments have significantly improved the water quality monitoring capability of the project.  It's worth noting that in the UK Waterra-In-Situ has also supported a number of research projects that you can read about on the case histories section of the website.

If you want to find out more about In-Situ Inc. or see videos of the latest products then take a look at the YouTube channel.

For information or advice on any of Waterra-In-Situ's groundwater monitoring products call us today on +44 (0) 121 733 7743 or email sales@waterra-in-situ.com.


Waterra-In-Situ - Well caps and plugs for monitoring boreholes

Kayleigh boldly goes where no turbidity monitor has gone before

Our very own Kayleigh Smith has braved the most inhospitable surface water conditions to raise money for charity.

Kayleigh, Field Sales Manager (Northern & Scotland), has taken part in not one but two gruelling challenges over the last 6 weeks. 

At the beginning of August she completed the 6.6.6 Demon Challenge, a series of physical and mental trials taking place over 6 hours, 6 minutes and 6 seconds, based on Navy Seals Hell Week.  

At the beginning of September Kayleigh saw off The Wolf Run, a 10k event featuring a series of man-made and natural obstacles designed to re-create the feeling of running in natural terrain. 

The connecting feature of these two activities seems to be that Kayleigh, and her fellow athletes from OPT (Outdoor Physical Training), spent an awful lot of time dunked in water at varying states of turbidity. Judging by the photos the word "water" should be substituted with "mud" - what is the turbidity of thick gooey mud?

All of this exertion is for a good cause. 

OPT raises money for The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which is the receiving hospital for all the UK's military patients from around the world. The JustGiving page is still open by the way.

We are delighted that Kayleigh has made it back into work unscathed, more or less.  On this evidence, however, she will have no excuses to decline any difficult field visits that come her way in the future.

You may have looked at these pictures and actually wondered how you would measure the turbidity of the water. In that case perhaps we can point you in the direction of our turbidity colorimeters, which offers effective measurement up to 1000 FTU.

For information or advice on any of Waterra-In-Situ's products call us today on 

+44 (0) 121 733 7743 or email sales@waterra-in-situ.com.

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Photo highlights - groundwater training course

The latest running of our Groundwater Sampling Methodology and Equipment training course proved so popular that we had to add an additional day to cope with the demand.

We were fortunate to be blessed with some late summer sunshine. This meant our outside demonstrations of an SP1 suction pump, manual inertial pump and PowerPack PP1 single operator power unit for inertials, could be conducted in some comfort.

Tim Davies, Kayleigh Smith, Stephen Wallice and Peter Dumble in action

After a review of the wide range of methodologies now available for groundwater sampling the Waterra-In-Situ team provided some close quarters demonstrations of some of the equipment available for you to use. The star of the show had to be the SmartTROLL hand held water quality monitoring instrument.  The management, monitoring and reporting capability of the smartphone app is rather impressive.

Remember to check the training section of our website, this blog, Twitter or our LinkedIn company page for details of new training course dates as they become available.

If you are looking for innovative solutions to your water monitoring requirements call us today on
+44 (0) 121 733 7743 or email sales@waterra-in-situ.com.


Waterra-In-Situ - Weekly rental available on our WaSP F1 flow controller