Water & Wastewater Treatment Magazine
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www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | MARCH 2019 | 5 SPADE IN THE GROUND: Northumbrian Water has started work on an £11M water treatment works at Murton, near Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumber- land. It's part of a £21M total investment to improve tap water quality for more than 25,000 people, with construction starting on another new £10 million treatment works in Wooler during the summer. United Utilities has commissioned innovative new assurance technology eviFile to use on 100km of pipeline in its £300M West Cumbria water supplies project. The digital evidence platform will enable it to manage the contractors on the project and produce an Ofwat- compliant digital evidence pack for any pipe within just four seconds instead of manually creating reports. QUOTE OF THE MONTH "The profile of those five-year investments doesn't help the industry at all and I don't think it helps the supply chain." Angela Smith MP, co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Water Group, criticises the water industry's AMP cycle Work has started on a two-year, £2.6M natural flood management project in West Yorkshire led by the National Trust to help protect homes and nurture wildlife devastated by the Boxing Day floods of 2015. The aim is to reduce the risk of flooding to over 3,000 homes and businesses in Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Marsden and surrounding areas. The work at Hardcastle Crags and Wessenden Valley, part of Marsden Moor, as well as Yorkshire Water's Gorpley Reservoir, will use a combination of natural interventions to slow the flow of water along the Colne and Calder river catchments. 1.5 million The number of vulnerable customers who will receive extra help with their bills from water companies under the business plans scrutinised by Ofwat. 15% The guideline reduction in leakage targeted by the water companies under the plans 45% reduction in greenhouse gases targeted by the water companies' plans over AMP7 GOOD MONTH FOR... Experts at Scottish Water and the James Hutton Institute, who have teamed up to lead and deliver the Water Test Network, an international drive to unlock innovation potential in the global water industry. The initiative also links specialists in Germany, Belgium, Holland and France. Fourteen locations across North West Europe form the network of operational-scale facilities that allow innovative new technology to be brought to market-ready status quicker for the benefit of water users and consumers. BAD MONTH FOR... Thames Water's Bracknell Sewage Treatment Works, which required a thorough and complicated clean-up operation a er it was affected by a large quantity of thick, black oil which had been poured into nearby sewers, clogging up a pumping station. Staff at the works had to painstakingly skim the oil off the surface of the water until all the pollutant had been removed; the utility was able to prevent an impact on customers or the environment but has launched an investigation into where the oil entered the network. GETTING STARTED NUMBERS PIPELINE EVIDENCE