We give below some examples of the problems on which we have prepared Expert Reports for possible use in litigation. The subjects covered by the Reports include drinking water contamination, problems with the design and construction of water treatment plants, accidents on chemical process plants, problems with swimming pool water, the risks of environmental pollution, sewer flooding and so on.

For more information on the range of subjects in which specialist advice can be given and experience in working as Expert in civil and criminal cases contact us on the address given below or by e-mail on cca@crowther-clayton.com.

Subject of the Report	Client
Problems arising from inadequate swimming pool water quality.	Confidential - Still active
An alleged breach of a patent in a flow-control device.	Hydro International Plc
Defence against a claim on the civil contractor by a water treatment process design company whose process was alleged to be inadequate.	Barr Ltd., Ayreshire.
Defence against a claim that an effluent treatment plant posed a risk of an environmental pollution.	Raytheon Engineers & Constructors.
Validity of claims for compensation following a sewer flooding incident.	Royal Sun & Alliance Insurance Co.
Claim against North-West Water for the alleged supply of water unfit for human consumption.	Private individual claim.
Potential prosecution for the supply of water contaminated by cryptosporidium parvum.	Yorkshire Water
Claim against a contractor for alleged defects in the design and construction of a water treatment plant.	South West Water
Defence against a prosecution for supplying drinking water contaminated by cryptosporidium parvum.	South West Water
Claim against Severn Trent Water for supplying water unfit for human consumption.	A private individual.
Claim against a contractor for the design and supply of a water treatment plant which did not perform adequately.	Eastbourne Water Company.
Inadequacies in the design and construction of a Local Authority swimming pool in which the tiles became detached because of alleged problems with the water quality in the swimming pool.	Kennet District Council, Wiltshire.
Claim for damages following the death of a worker in an accidental fire on a methyl methacrylate polymer cracking plant.	A private individual.
Preparation of an Expert Report for the defence in the "Camelford Case" in North Cornwall in which aluminium sulphate was accidentally discharged into the drinking water distribution system.	South West Water Authority.
An Expert Report on the environmental risk posed by contaminated water in a pulverised fuel-ash land-fill site.	National Power Plc.

For more information please contact:

Eur.Ing Rolf Clayton, BSc, CEng, FIChemE, FCIWEM, FIMgt, MAE, FRSA,

Crowther Clayton Associates,
31 Tennyson Road,
London, NW7 4AB,
United Kingdom.

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