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News: Severn Trent completes £40M Ambergate reservoir project. P8 Onsite: Southern Water and Clancy Docwra on the challenges of the Woolmans Wood mains replacement programme. P11 Special Report: Disruption and the supply chain. P21 WET NEWS WATER AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT NEWS Anglian plans £500M strategic water grid MAY 2018 Volume 24 • Issue 5 Bristol Water scraps Cheddar Two plans Veolia launches bioresources marketplace A nglian 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 sup- ply resilience. The proposal is the centre- piece of an £800 million pro- gramme of resilience spending outlined in Anglian's dra• water resources management plan (WRMP) and is aimed at signi€ - cantly reducing the likelihood of severe drought restrictions in future. It would feature a new main pipeline running from Elsham in North Lincolnshire to South Lin- colnshire, allowing millions of litres of clean, safe drinking water to be supplied every day to cus- tomers in Greater Lincolnshire, and further south if needed. Anglian Water said nearly every county in the east of Eng- land will see multi-million-pound investment and new pipeline installations to join up the region. It is asking customers for their views on its dra• WRMP, which also outlines that £44 million would be invested to install and upgrade the water treatment works in Elsham so it can serve the new, larger grid. In addition to the strategic water grid, Anglian said it plans to spend £180 million on rolling out "money-saving smart meters" to thousands more customers across the region and £50 million on driving leakage down by a further 23 per cent by 2025 to take the company to a "world-leading low level of leakage". It also said it would seek to spend £21 million on continuing Anglian's water e" ciency cam- paigns and initiatives with the hope that customers will save 30 million litres of water a day by 2045. Anglian recently announced that it will kick-start the invest- ment programme with a £65 million investment in the next two years – paid for through a r e d u c t i o n i n s h a r e h o l d e r dividends. Jean Spencer, Anglian Water's director for growth and resilience, said: "Ensuring we have enough fresh water for the future is the biggest challenge we face. "Our dra• plan sets out how we make the best use of the water we already have but also what measures we need to put in place B ristol Water has abandoned plans to build a £100 mil- lion second reservoir in Cheddar in Somerset. The project had been under consideration since 2013, but Ofwat did not allow the company to begin construction during AMP6 and Bristol Water has opted against including the reservoir in its draft business plan for 2020-25. Patric Bulmer, head of water resources and environment at Bristol Water, said: "The informa- tion we now have on population growth and climate change has moved on signi€ cantly since we p ro p o s e d t h e C h e d d a r Two project. " T h a t , co u p l e d w i t h o u r planned reduction in leakage and work to improve water e" ciency means we no longer believe the reservoir is needed." Bulmer added: "Our draft business plan sets out € ve clear priorities, including ensuring bills are až ordable, so we will be looking at ways to manage our water better before we develop new supplies, which is at the heart of our decision on Cheddar Two." Bristol Water also announced the completion of its £27 million Southern Resilience Scheme. The project to improve water supplies for 280,000 households across North Somerset and South Bristol began in December 2016 and included the installation of a new 30km water main. V eolia has launched a new online trading platform for organic resources, which may prove a timely tool for wastewater utilities amid regulatory reforms to create a market for sewage sludge. The global resource manage- ment company believes the new platform – BioTrading – will make it easier to buy and sell organic resources and further the aims of the circular economy. Designed to save users time and money, BioTrading will provide busi- nesses the opportunity to better leverage the 100 million tonnes of raw materials and biofuels produced in the UK every year. The BioTrading website will be a sales and auction market- place that connects buyers to the rest of the value chain and € nds the best deal for their organic resource needs, recycling them into new products or green energy. Unlike other parts of the economy, there is no price comparison or trading platform for organic resources and buyers and sellers currently waste time and money n a v i g a t i n g a c o n f u s i n g marketplace. Raquel Carrasco, organics and technology director at Veolia UK, said: "Our new BioTrading web- site is the missing link for the UK's organic resources and represents a real step forward in innovation. By operating as an agile trading platform it is a € nancial and envi- ronmental win-win for both buyer and seller." now to become more resil- ient to severe drought and the impacts of climate change in the future. " R e s i l i e n t , s e c u r e w a t e r resources are vital to communi- ties, businesses and the environ- ment alike, which is why we want our customers to have their say to ensure that our plans re¦ ect their priorities." Spencer added: "How we man- age the water we have available now and in the future is really important. We already put less water into supply today than in "We're at the leading edge of oˆ -site modular construction" Jamie MacGregor, Ross-shire Engineering, P18 "There's a lack of understanding on how data can and should be used" Mark Kaney, Sweco UK, P14 Engineering, ¨ Measure forms main part of draft water resources management plan "Ensuring we have enough fresh water for the future is the biggest challenge we face" Jean Spencer, Anglian Water S tonbury has named Ian Mellor as its new managing director. Mellor, who had previously served as Stonbury's operations director, € lls the role vacated by James Stonor, who began his new position as chief executive officer for Stonbury Group in April. The company also announced that Mellor has appointed QSE manager Stephen Brown as well as operations manager Chris C h a l l a n d s t o t h e b o a r d o f directors. Both Jon Featherstone and Jon Perryman remain in their current positions as delivery directors, while Stonbury con- firmed the additional appoint- ments of new contracts directors Michael Campling, who has served the company for over 25 years, and Vernon Cowan, who returns after a 10-year sabbatical at Affinity Water. The company said that the new contract managers "will bring a greater level of quality to ongoing and future delivery schemes". Reacting to the news, Mellor s a i d : " I a m d e l igh te d to b e appointed as new MD for Ston- bury and will continue to progress Ja m e s ' v i s i o n o f a m o d e r n , diverse, professional and safe company to work in. Stonbury announce appointments to board of directors "I, of course, recognise the importance of a well thought-out system, which we will continue t o i m p r o v e u p o n a s a n organisation. "This means we can continue to attract and retain great people, as, without them, there is no organisation at all." Stonbury is«a specialist con- tractor to the water industry working with 15 of the UK's lead- ing water companies. 19 8 9 , d e s p i te a 3 4 p e r ce n t increase in the number of proper- ties we serve. That's because we've tackled leakage, and helped our customers become more water e" cient. "One thing is certain, we will always need water. Continuing to manage the demand in the future will only be possible by working with our customers on being even more water wise, stop- ping more leaks than ever before, and thinking about how the water industry can work more collabo- ratively in the future. That's what our ambitious WRMP focuses on." The dra• WRMP also detailed plans to work more closely and trade water with neighbouring companies Affinity Water and Severn Trent Water. Spencer added: "Our WRMP makes the best use of available water before developing new re s o u rce s a n d s ig n i f i c a n t ly increases our resilience to severe drought. "In practical terms, this means that, by 2025, in a 1:200 year drought event no customers in the Anglian Water region will be at risk of severe restrictions."

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