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WET NEWS WATER AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT NEWS News+ Thames Water's 'super sewer' gets the green light, p4; more acquisitive activity is expected among the water industry's contractors and supply chain, p6 Onsite: Flood risk management The Colwick Sluice plays a vital role in protecting Nottingham against flooding. Carrying out mainte- nance on the sluice brought its own challenges, p15, 17 Insight: Sewage & sludge treatment The trend to recover as much nutrients as possible in the wastewater treatment process is on the increase. But what happens if high concentrations of ammonia and phosphorous are present? "I'm looking to combine that experience with the best of what Imtech has to oŠ er" Duncan Atkins, p9 "UK SMEs are in a unique position, being based in the country with the most privatised water sec- tor in the world" Matthew Wheelock, p6 Joint ventures and companies are the winners as water companies Anglian and Southern allocate contracts for their AMP6 capital delivery programmes and beyond. – Kent and East Sussex – while GTM will do the same for the western half, covering West Sus- sex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. MGjv will work on expand- ing and maintaining Southern Water's network of mains and sewers, which are more than 53,000km in length. Later this year, Southern W ater companies Anglian and Southern have both announced the contrac- tors who will be responsible for delivering their capital delivery programmes in AMP6 and beyond. CMDP, a joint venture between Costain and MWH; GTM, a joint venture between Galliford Try and Imtech, supported by strate- gic design partner Atkins; and MGjv, a joint venture between Morrison Utility Services and Gal- liford Try, supported by strategic design partner AECOM, have been contracted by Southern Water to work alongside its strate- gic solutions partner MWH. They will work on Southern's £3B plan to upgrade services for the 4.5 million people served by Southern Water in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The new contracts will run to the end of March 2020, with an option to extend them for another – ve years. CMDP will work on mainte- nance and improvements to water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half of Southern Water's region Enter the water industry 'Oscars' T he Water Industry Achieve- ment Awards is well under- way with the closing date for entries being December 12, 2014. Organised by WET News and Water & Wastewater Treatment, the awards celebrate and reward innovative thinking and best prac- tice in the water industry. The winners will be announced at a glittering extravaganza at the Hil- ton Birmingham Metropole on April 21, 2015! Details of the awards are avail- able online at www.wwtonline. co.uk/awards or by emailing wiaa@fav-house.com. Nine companies have already signed up and are sponsoring categories. Teekay Couplings is making its awards debut by co-sponsoring the Most Innovative Use of an Existing Technology category. Saint-Gobain makes a welcome return, co-sponsoring People Ini- tiative of the Year with TES; as does Sykes Pumps, which is co- sponsoring Engineer of the Year. More AMP6 work assigned worth around £200M. Working with Anglian Water employees, the companies will deliver the entire domestic and business metering programme including water eŸ ciency audits. They will also lay new mains and divert existing pipework, and install new water connections. Barhale, Kier MG and Morri- son US will deliver the Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) pro- gramme, worth in the region of £250M. They will deliver the majority of small replacement and refurbishment projects, such as work on – lter screens at Angli- an's existing operational sites and treatment works. Jason Tucker, head of Capital Delivery and Supply Chain Man- agement for Anglian Water, said: "Con– rming our partners for these two vitally important alli- ances is another signi– cant step forward in our AMP6 procure- ment process. "We are determined to deliver maximum eŸ ciency and satis- faction for our customers by working closely with these care- fully selected organisations to drive innovation." NEED TO KNOW Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Grontmij, MMB (the Mott MacDonald and JN Bentley jv), MWH and Skanska will deliver Anglian's Integrated Main Works Capital (IMWC) programme The Anglian Water contracts are for 15 years, subject to ™ ve-yearly reviews based on the AMP cycle Southern Water will make announce later this year the companies that will support its day-to-day repair and mainte- nance work MWH was appointed as Southern Water's strategic solutions partner earlier this year O at agrees to limited response from Severn Trent Water will make a further announcement on which compa- nies will support day-to-day repair and maintenance at its 94 water supply works, 368 waste- water treatment works, and its network of water mains and sew- ers during 2015 to 2020. Matthew Wright, Southern Water's chief executive, said: "We look forward to working with CMDP, GTM and MGjv, together with MWH, as part of our new Southern Water Partner- ship to plan and implement innovative ways of improving the water and wastewater services we provide. This, in turn, will make us more eŸ cient and able to provide better value to our customers." At Anglian Water, Barhale, Clancy Docwra, Kier MG and Morrison Utility Services are the latest contractors appointed by Anglian Water to its AMP6 capi- tal delivery programme. The four – rms will deliver contracts worth around £450M during AMP6. Clancy Docwra and Kier MG will deliver Anglian's Integrated Metering and Developer Services (IMDS) programme in a deal OCTOBER 2014 Volume 20 • Issue 10 continuous battery powered turbidity for network monitoring t. 0800 8046 062 www.atiuk.com A proposal by Severn Trent Water to limit its response to the dra© determinations to just a handful of critical issues has been accepted by Ofwat. Sev- ern Trent chief executive Liv Gar- – eld outlined the proposal in a letter to Ofwat last month, saying that focusing the company's rep- resentations on a small number of material issues to Severn Trent "allows suŸ cient air time for our critical issues". In the letter, Gar– eld said: "We appreciate that Ofwat has all 14 'slow track' DOs to complete in only a matter of weeks, and there remains a number of signi– cant issues to be – nalised, during the – nal stage of the price review process." Ofwat portfolio director Giles Stevens, replying to Gar– eld's let- ter, said the regulator welcomed the "overall approach of focused representations". He said: This will help make the most e« ective use of resources for both teams and deliver the best outcome for customers. How- ever, I should point out that there are no guarantees associated with the outcome of our assessment."

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