Water & Wastewater Treatment Magazine
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www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | MAY 2019 | 7 TUNNELLING TEAM: Scottish Water's tunnel boring machine has 'broken through' in Paisley ahead of the completion of the utility's £17M project to build a mile-long sewer tunnel under the town. The project will improve water quality and the natural environ- ment by intercepting CSOs which currently spill into two local rivers. QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Around 20-25 years from now is the jaws of death – the point at which, unless we take action to change things, we will not have enough water to supply our needs." Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency, on a possible UK water shortage in future Northumbrian Water is installing special screens at its water intake in Warkworth on the River Coquet to protect eels, in the first part of a £9M project. The mesh screens will help prevent eels being sucked in by the pumps, which abstract water from the river to supply nearby reservoirs and water treatment works. It's part of a larger project to install screens at four different intakes on rivers across the North East, following implementation of the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009. Work on the eel screens at Warkworth began in April and is being carried out by Mott Macdonald Bentley (MMB), in partnership with the Environment Agency. The work is due to be complete by February 2020. 78% The proportion of British Water members who believe that nationalisation would lead to a reduction in investment in the water supply chain, according to the organisation's survey. 16.7% Annual growth in turnover for water contractor nmcn, which announced a very positive set of full year results. The company, which rebranded from North Midland Construction last year, reached a new sales high of £340.45 million, up from £291.77 million in 2017 and £250.5 million in 2016, with profits and cash balances also up. GOOD MONTH FOR… Clancy Docwra and Kier, who have been awarded a contract to carry out leakage detection services for Anglian Water as part of the IMR Water alliance. The two companies will jointly assume responsibility for the new contract, with Clancy Docwra carrying out leakage detection work across the western area of Anglian Water's network while Kier will handle the eastern section. The move to integrate the contracts reflects Anglian Water's focus on driving down leakage across its network. The company reported its lowest recorded level of leakage over 2017-18, at 183 mega litres per day (ml/d) – significantly below its regulatory target of 192 ml/d. BAD MONTH FOR… Severn Trent Water, which has been fined £500,000 for discharging thousands of gallons of raw sewage from its sewer network on to land at Sutton Park, West Midlands. Birmingham Crown Court also ordered the utility to pay prosecution costs of £50,693 and a victim surcharge of £120 in relation to the incident, which occurred in November 2013 and followed a blockage in the local sewer system. Officers from Natural England attended and found that the sewage had spread across an area of 1.15 hectares (an area slightly greater than the size of an international rugby pitch). Sewage had also entered a nearby ditch and travelled 700 metres into the Longmoor Brook to the Longmoor Pool within the Park. GETTING STARTED IN NUMBERS The Talk: May