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GENERAL PROJECT

Kielder Reservoir Improvement Works

Together with our supply partners Esh Stantec we plan to carry out improvement works to Kielder Reservoir over a period of 4 months. These works are needed to ensure the resilience of the reservoir.

Update by Dave Eden

Hi all,

Time for a final update on the current phase of works at Kielder Reservoir:

 

All ground investigation works are now complete on the dam embankment and reservoir side by the spill way. These works have comprised 15nr boreholes, most of which include instrumentation so that the dam can be monitored remotely.

There is still some tidying up to complete such as the removal of the scaffolding on the water side of the dam crest wall, final clearance of the cabins and some landscaping on the dam embankment where our works have damaged the grass.

In respect to the landscaping, it is unfortunately too wet and also out of season to carry out the works and these will have to wait until the spring.

 

Further works are intending in the spring to lay ducting and node chamber to connect the new boreholes together and allow them to transmit signals rather than needing site visits for monitoring as is currently the case. These works should tie in nicely with the reinstatement of the dam embankment and permanent reinstatement of the dam crest road which has three small patches of temporary surfacing around new chambers.

 

Thanks for your patience during these works. I hope we were not too much disruption.

 

Dave Eden

Project Manager

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