---
title: "Query the readings in your monitoring reports | Certant"
description: "Certant pulls readings out of water monitoring PDFs, compares them with the limits in your approved documents and shows every site-month with no reading."
url: "https://certant.ai/use-cases/water-monitoring-reports"
---

For water utilities and monitoring teams

# Query the readings in your monitoring reports

Certant pulls readings out of monitoring PDFs, compares them with the limits in your approved documents and shows every site-month with no reading.

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Every reading opens the report page it was read from.

Aqua Valley Water · Eastern Catchment Intake · March 2025Example

Turbidity recorded **5.6 NTU**. Documented limit **5.0 NTU**.

Above documented limit Monthly monitoring report, March 2025 · table 3 · page 7 Water quality management plan · section 4.2 · page 18

_Aqua Valley Water is a fictional authority used for demonstration._

The problem

## Years of readings sit in PDFs

Each monthly report has a table of readings by site. To answer one question across three years you open thirty-six PDFs, and a month where a site didn't report is easy to miss among them.

The documents

## What Certant reads

Tables that change layout from one year's report to the next are read into the same set of readings.

| Document | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| Monitoring reports | The tables of readings in each monthly or annual report, by site, measure and date. |
| Approved limits | The limit for each measure, from your own management plan, licence conditions or operating procedure. |
| Site list | The sites and periods you expect a reading for. |

The result

## Open a reading at its page

A reading above the documented limitExample

**Site**

Eastern Catchment Intake

**Period**

March 2025

**Measure**

Turbidity

**Recorded**

5.6 NTU

**Documented limit**

5.0 NTU

**Verdict**

Above documented limit

**Reading source**

Monthly monitoring report, March 2025 · table 3 · page 7

**Limit source**

Water quality management plan · section 4.2 · page 18

Turbidity readings received, January to June 2025Example

| Site | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Catchment Intake | 2.3 | 2.6 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Western Bore | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | No reading | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Northern Reservoir | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.1 |

_The grid marks March at Eastern Catchment Intake as a reading above the limit, and April at Western Bore as a missing reading._

Ask across the reportsExample

"What was the average turbidity at Eastern Catchment Intake in 2024?"

Answer

**2.40 NTU**, averaged across the FY2024 report.

Water quality report, FY2024 · table 3 · page 6

The approval

## Your team decides what happens next

When a reading is above its documented limit, or a site-month is missing, Certant raises it with the sources attached and drafts a follow-up. A monitoring lead reviews the draft before anything is sent.

Proposed follow-upExample

**To**

Western Bore site operator

**Draft**

"We hold no turbidity reading for Western Bore in April 2025. March and May are on file. Could you send the April results, or confirm that no sample was taken?"

Waiting for approval · Monitoring lead

Scope

## What setup involves

We load a run of your monitoring reports and the document that states your limits. You check the extracted readings against a few reports you know well before relying on the rest.

| Area | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Purpose | This is reporting and evidence review. It doesn't control a treatment process or give water-safety advice. |
| Limits | Every limit comes from a document you have approved. Certant doesn't supply regulatory thresholds of its own. |
| Gaps | A site-month with no reading is shown as a gap and is never filled with an estimate. |

Related

## Related use cases

### Regulatory return gaps

Sites and periods missing from the returns you hold.

[See the use case](https://certant.ai/use-cases/regulatory-return-gaps)

### Production report gaps

Plants and periods with no operating report.

[See the use case](https://certant.ai/use-cases/production-report-gaps)

### Quality deviation review

Batch results checked against the approved specification.

[See the use case](https://certant.ai/use-cases/quality-deviation-review)

[See all use cases](https://certant.ai/use-cases)

## Bring a year of reports

Send us twelve months of monitoring reports and the plan that sets your limits. We'll show you the readings as a table you can question.

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