Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley

Good afternoon,

In preparation for our work to tunnel under the River Tees near Cotherstone, we’ve started to build a temporary road (shown by the yellow line on the map below).  The road will run from the Lartington water treatment works to the point on the River Tees where we will be tunnelling to create the crossing for the new pipeline. The temporary road is necessary because we need to transport large pieces of plant and machinery to the tunnelling site.

We’ll be bringing stone from a local quarry at Bowes, around six miles away, to create the temporary road surface. Initially, we’re planning to move around 300 tonnes of stone per day for around two weeks starting on Monday 3 April 2023.  This equates to around 10-15 lorry loads per day. After this, the number of lorries will reduce to around 5-10 per day for a further week.

Towards the end of April, we’ll be building temporary office accommodation near the site of the tunnelling works, so you’ll see some portable cabins and other items of plant and materials being transported. You may see 2 or 3 lorries per day until this site near Cotherstone has been set up. The temporary site location is shown by the blue arrow on the map below.

Please be assured our drivers will take care on the small, rural roads and will drive safety and with courtesy to other road users.

Many thanks,

Karen Alexander

Farrans Community Business Partner