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| 27th February - 5th March 2015 | utILIty WeeK
Operations & Assets
High viz
S
outhern Water has brought in a
team of specialist technicians
from contractor Clancy Docwra
to renovate 12km of Victorian sewers
in Ramsgate.
The sewers were built over a cen-
tury ago by miners who dug under-
ground tunnels through the chalk, up
to 10 metres deep in places. These tun-
nels remain in place and continue to
act as a conduit for the sewer network.
The technicians, who are trained to
Mine, all mine