Update by Katie Burdon
Trunks mains update
Glasshouse Bridge
Friday 7th September – Site meeting to discuss camera operation.
Met with Chris Donaldson the building maintenance manager from Newcastle Council Enterprise Centre who provisionally gave permission to undertake work on 15th - 18th September suspending and utilising 7 parking bays within the grounds.
Sunday 9th September
Churchill Street, Wallsend
Cut & cap the link main off 15” cast iron main and install washout. This now isolates the 15” main for abandonment. The outstanding works are the removal of 2x Air valve lids and frames and 1x valve lid all with backfill and reinstatement.
Monday 10th September
Fastflow completed 130m x 90mm HPPE open cut at Robinson Street/Corbridge Street/Headlam Street. Mains were pressure tested, chlorinated and sampled with the intention of undertaking x2 ITS’s on Tuesday 18th September at 10.30am and 11.30am to make the final connections. Backfill and reinstating is currently being undertaken.
Monday 10th/Tuesday 11th September
Fastflow started to prepare the excavation for the installation of a 300mm valve at the junction of Denmark Street and Heaton Road. This allows NWL to be able to control the water supplies in the Heaton area for future work.
Wednesday 12th September
Finish preparations for the 90mm HPPE connections on Heaton Road.
Thursday 13th September
At the junction of Denmark Street and Heaton Road a nightshift was undertaken from 23.00hrs with NWL isolating a 300mm water main and Fastflow installed a 300mm inline valve. (Photographs included)
Saturday 15th/Sunday 16th September
Glasshouse Bridge excavation will be undertaken on 30” water main in the car park of Newcastle Quayside Enterprise Centre, to locate and identify the 30” water main for the purpose of extracting a dowel and installing a camera to video the internal section of the main. This information will be scrutinised to determine a proposed technique of renewing the water main. The camera operation will be undertaken on Tuesday 18th September and the excavation will be backfilled and reinstated until a technique has been agreed.
Monday 17th September
Excavate at the rear of The Tyne Pub and locate the 30” main for the purpose of extracting a dowel, to camera and video a section of water main. Gordon Mitchell has made contact with the owner of The Tyne Pub – Mr F Plater and agreed to maintain the parking area for the staff. This hole will be backfilled and reinstated immediately after the camera work.
Wednesday 19th September
Heaton Road – a road closure will be imposed between Denmark Street and Tynemouth Road. To allow Fastflow to excavate in the highway for the purpose of pipe inserting 100m x 225mm HPPE new water main.
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