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| 21ST - 27TH JUNE 2019 | UTILITY WEEK
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Wessex Water is working with Natu-
ral England during the expansion and
upgrade of Thornford Water Recycling
Centre, which is at an old quarry and
landfill site in Dorset.
Troll Quarry is a site of special sci-
entific interest, and archaeological
adviser Dr Robert Chandler, of the Nat-
ural History Museum in London, has
been keeping an eye on excavations.
Wessex Water's environmental
team relocated a number of slow
worms, which are legally protected,
before biofilm reactors were installed.
Also, they protected a bat roost and
designed the scheme to avoid any
impact on a nearby railway line.
Enlargement of the site has pro-
vided an opportunity to examine
rocks in situ. Dr Chandler said: "The
Ammonites, bats
and slow worms at
Wessex Water site
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