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| 6TH - 12TH OCTOBER 2017 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz High viz
Severn Trent Water reached another
milestone in its mammoth project on
the Elan Valley Aqueduct last month
when its second bypass tunnel broke
through at Nantmel in mid-Wales.
The first of three bypass tunnels,
at Bleddfa, has already been dug and
work on the third, at Knighton, is
scheduled to start in February. The
whole project should be completed in
August 2019.
The bypass tunnels are needed
so that upgrade work can be
carried out on the 100-year-old Elan
Valley Aqueduct without shutting
it down. The aqueduct provides a
Elan Valley
breakthrough
