WATER NETWORK IMPROVEMENT

Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley

This work will boost the resilience of supply links between our reservoirs and treatment works in Teesdale, and parts of central and southern County Durham. Our investment will increase reliability, reduce leakage and provide high quality drinking water for customers for decades to come. This phase of the project - Phase 1 - will construct a new replacement pipeline from Lartington Water Treatment Works to Gainford and a new strategic transfer main between Whorley Hill SR and Shildon SR.

Update by Karen Alexander

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

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