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| 5TH - 11TH MAY 2017 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
As part of a flagship £300 million
project to bring online an alternative
water supply for Birmingham, the
Elan Valley Aqueduct needs to be
upgraded in three places – but storage
limitations mean it can currently only
be shut down for a few days at a time.
To allow larger-scale upgrades to
take place, three huge bypass tunnels
will be dug so that water supplies can
be maintained while work goes on.
The three new tunnels will be built
First of three
