Good afternoon, Following on from my previous update our contractor Retroflo have continued with cabling to various chambers and MCC kiosk ahead of commissioning works and trial operations for wet well pumps. Commissioning of the backup generator at Plawsworth Sewerage Treatment Works has been completed. ESH have been drilling and dowelling existing concrete slabs, ready for reinforced concrete reinstatement works within Northumbrian Water facilities. Including construction of a manhole and penstock fitted within the chamber. Reinstatement work continues throughout areas of work. Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com Thank you Rachel

Good afternoon ESH Stantec working with Active are currently onsite setting up to start sinking the shaft next week within the Sewerage Treatment Works. A satellite compound is set-up for off loading of articulated wagons. The team will keep distruption to a minimum and thank you for your patience during these times.  Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com. Thank you, have a great weekend! Rachel

Good afternoon Stretching from Darlington to Edinburgh, the A68 is a key transport route for the North East, so laying a water pipe from one side to  the other had the potential to prove disruptive to motorists. But engineers working on the first phase of our 57km Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley are working to avoid any impact on the highway! Working with our partners, Farrans Construction and specialists from HB Tunnelling, we’re micro-tunnelling under the road at Bildershaw, south of West Auckland. This way, we don’t have to dig up the road and either close it or put up traffic lights. Special “drive” and “reception” pits have been created on either side of the A68. It will take us between four and six weeks to pass the 60 metres from one side of the road to the other, helping to keep traffic on the A68 flowing, and the water flowing to more than 200,000 customers! Kind regards Karen Alexander Farrans’ Stakeholder and Social Value Co-ordinator

Good Afternoon All Updates on our Storm Tank projects are as follows: Moor Crescent/Barnard Avenue, Ludworth The team are continuing works on Moor Crescent, due to weather conditions and temperature the concrete on Moor Crescent is being monitored in order to complete the next section of work. Barnard Avenue is progressing well and the team continue to temporary reinstate the area as the road closure is re-positioned. Etherley Dene, Bishop Auckland The compound area is scheduled to be set up WC 20 January 2025 with work on Etherley Lane to begin the following week. Once the details are finalised I will provide a further update. Pithouse Lane All of the main civils works are now complete and the remaining minor works will be taking place after the christmas break. Finchale View Our site ompound is now fully complete and we are due to start drainage works week commencing 2 December. Stanghow Road, Lingdale You will see our team present next week, commencing 2nd December while we carry out some survey work. Surveys will be taking place in the Sandringham Road and Balmoral Road area where there will be 4 way traffic lights in place for a duration on 5 days. We are also carrying out excavation works for an attenuation tank on Stanghow Road. Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com. Thank you Alice & Rachel

Hi All, We wanted to provide an update on ongoing and upcoming work across the project. Eighton Banks Testing continues on the pipeline laid between the Bowes Railway and the Wagon pub. We will advise on progress in future updates on the outcome of that testing. As a reminder we plan to close the junction between Galloping Green Road & Sandy Lane from the 6 January 2025 for 8 weeks. We held a customer drop-in session for the residents in the area this week, thank you to everyone who came to talk to us. We will be erecting advanced notice signage in the location before the work begins. As the Christmas period approaches our site operations will close down from the 20 December until 2 January and during this period the Public Rights of Way will be reopened in Eighton Banks. Reservoir Site Update The final roof pour at the reservoir site is scheduled for 3 December, subject to weather conditions. Peareth Hall Road Work on stabilising the rock face at the A194 Northbound hard shoulder began on 25 November and is expected to be completed next week. Excavations have started along the PROW in preparation for the installation of 150 meters of pipe. You may see the occasional vehicle crossing from the compound to the pipelaying section and vice versa. A banksman will supervise these crossings.  Other things to note in the coming weeks. Following the pipe crossing along Peareth Hall Road, we mentioned we would need to return to carry out the permanent resurfacing. This has been planned to be undertaken on Tuesday 10 December and will involve a full road closure for one day between 8:30am and 6:00pm. Footpaths on either side of the road will remain open during this time. Sunderland City Council will also carry out resurfacing on Mount Lane from 9 December. Further details will follow directly from the council.    We appreciate your patience as we work to complete these critical improvements. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.   Thanks, Anya

Good afternoon,  As of Friday 29 November 2024, Archaeology will finish within the current area and will be returning for a watching brief WC 9 December 2024.  Work has been completed on The Front, with the team continuing work within the Sewerage Treatment Works. Auger boring has commenced at Goosebeck and will be completed within 1 week, we dont expect this to cause too much disruption. Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com. Thank you for your time! Rachel

Good morning The team have established a temporary site compound within the treatment works until the remote compound can be set-up in the New Year. The small access road to the treatment works has been widened after received further permission. Topsoil strip within the treatment works has been completed ready for work to start on the sinking of the shaft. Stockproof fencing will begin to be installed on Friday 28 November 2024. Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com. Thank you for your time! Rachel

Good Morning A little update on our Esh Winning Sewage Treatment Works. Our team have been working really hard on the lead up to Christmas and have been carrying out general reinstatement works, installed the delivery slab and have now started the electrical install. Please contact us direct if you have any questions at nwl.customer@esh.uk.com

Good Evening Following the start of our works at The Stanners, the team on site have made great progress (even when the snow tried its best to slow us down) and are continuing with the works on site. We have established the site compound area, then started the excavation of the chambers and pipework around the below ground pumping station. We will continue this work up until the break for the Christmas period. We will provide further details about this Christmas period in due course.  If there are any further questions in the meantime, please do let us know

Good afternoon all and happy Wednesday! I hope you’re having a good week so far. I have some excellent progress to share with you this month, thanks to the Team on Site and I have also included some photographs so that you can take a look. We have made the most of the surprisingly good autumnal weather and have had a very productive month on site. All the intrusive connections went well and are now complete. New filter arms and distributor have been installed. The new inlet screen is now complete. The Syphon chamber is under construction. We have commenced with the construction of footpaths and installation of above ground pipe work. The electrical installation is also going well with all new cables installed site wide.  As always, if you’d like to ask us any questions regarding the Project, please don’t hesitate to add a comment in the box below and a member of the Project Team will respond accordingly. Take care and speak soon, Bethany

Good morning all, I hope you’re well and enjoyed your weekend. Further to my previous update, we are now on Site and fully operational. The first few weeks have seen some great progress and hard work made by the Site Team, so I wanted to share this progress with you on today’s update. All of the reinforced concrete has been removed and the trench dug along the through Site to allow the ducting, wash water and PE rising mains which has been installed. Installed new 250di primary effluent pipe across the road ready to connect onto Material laydown area is complete along with topping off with tarmac plainings. 10no valves delivered from Affco Positive review of the level 1 plan with the Site Team. As you can see, this is a fantastic start to the Project. If you have any questions that you’d like to ask us, please don’t hesitate to add a comment in the box below and a member of the Project Team will respond accordingly. Take care and speak soon, Bethany

Hello, Please find latest updates together with progress photos, from our Witton Gilbert project.  Witton Gilbert November 2024 Updates