Operations & Assets
High viz
Tunnel vision
22 | 18th - 24th October 2013 | UTILITY WEEK
U
nited Utilities is conducting a
£22 million structural nalysis
a
of its Haweswater aqueduct this
month, for the first time in its history.
Commissioned in 1955, the aqueduct is 90km long, hundreds of feet
deep in places, and allows 570 million
litres of water to flow from Cumbria to
Manchester every day (original digging
works in 1950s pictured).
It is responsible for the water supply of two million people.
The project has taken a decade
to plan and involves more than 400
