Water & Wastewater Treatment Magazine
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www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | MAY 2018 | 5 FLUSHED FISH: Southern Water staff found a dead piranha at the company's Chichester sewage treatment works. "There's only the three Ps which should go down the loo – pee, poo and paper. Piranhas are not one of them," communica- tions officer Simon Fluendy said. "I suppose we should be relieved it's not the crocodile which an old urban legend said lived in the New York sewers." Severn Trent has completed its expansion of Ambergate reservoir. "This was a big investment for us of more than £40 million which involved modernising the site and increasing capacity," group chief commercial officer Helen Miles said. "The newly constructed reservoirs will make sure customers can keep using fresh water in so many wonderful ways for many years to come." QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Ofwat has been pushing water companies to up their game for some time but we need to go further, faster." Ofwat chairman Jonson Cox a er setting out the regulator's agenda to improve corporate behaviours Work on a £3.4 million Scottish Water project to upgrade drinking water storage facilities for Nairn and Auldearn is underway. The project, which will take around 15 months to complete, will see two ageing service reservoirs at Urchany and Raitloan replaced by a new, modern twin cell service reservoir situated at Urchany. The upgrade will also see a new pressure valve installed on the pipeline serving Nairn, allowing greater control over water pressures and helping reduce leaks. The work is being delivered by Scottish Water's alliance partner ESD. £500M Anglian Water has revealed plans to invest more than £500 million in a strategic grid of new pipes to move water around its region and boost supply resilience. The proposal is the centrepiece of an £800 million programme of resilience spending outlined in Anglian's dra water resources management plan. 12 Thames Water has quadrupled its above-ground fatberg fighting team to 12 in a bid to slash the number of sewer blockages caused by restaurants and takeaways. The team of door-to-door investigators includes a former police officer. GOOD MONTH FOR... Atkins, a er Water UK handed it a contract to develop a framework enabling water companies across England and Wales to strengthen drainage resilience when they produce their drainage and wastewater management plans. The project team have begun work on the project and it is scheduled to be published in late summer 2018. BAD MONTH FOR Scottish Water, which was forced to review its wastewater treatment plans in Gairloch in light of concerns from the local community. The company had proposed the use of UV filtration on sewage for five months of the year and, outside the bathing season, to treat the wastewater in settling tanks before being discharged. The proposals had brought protests, including toilets being placed on the beach. GETTING STARTED NUMBERS GREEN LIGHT FOR AMBERGATE