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Plans for the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme are still in development with work on this mammoth £1bn pipe refurbishment project proposed to begin in 2023.Safe and Stress free Local Plumbers Serving Bakersfield The impressive feat of engineering completed at Hallbank is the first milestone in a much bigger project which will see the replacement of six more tunnel sections along the 109km Haweswater Aqueduct which supplies drinking water to 2.5 million customers in Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. While the pipeline was out of operation, another team of engineers took the opportunity to enter the Haweswater Aqueduct further south to carry out more inspection work. This section at Hallbank is the first one.” After detailed analysis, and a further inspection in 2016, engineers identified several places where they needed to do some maintenance.

We shut the entire pipeline for two weeks in 2013 for its first ever complete inspection. “United Utilities has a world class reputation for this kind of high intensity work. It takes careful planning, and round the clock vigilance by our teams across the region, to keep everyone’s taps flowing. “The main thing is that we have safeguarded a major essential piece of our regional water network for future generations and none of our customers were any the wiser.

“Despite the weather, this is the best time of year because there’s plenty of water available from other sources,” he explained. Project sponsor Martin Padley said it was hats off to everyone working on site for a job well done. We had hot and cold food brought in and we took over two hotels- one for the night shift, one for the day shift, to reduce the risk of contamination,” said John.Ī dedicated team of cleaners worked 24 hours at each end of the pipe constantly disinfecting equipment and work areas earning them the nickname ‘COVID cops’ by site staff. As well as rigorous round-the-clock cleaning, team distancing and testing, almost 100 extra trained staff had to be put on stand-by in case an entire work team had to self-isolate. In the final hours, storms were so fierce that large steel huts erected to shelter welding activities were left in place to provide weather protection for the remaining work. The site was handed back to United Utilities early, after just seven days 22 hours and 46 minutes. At its peak 90 engineers on round-the-clock socially-distanced shifts were working at either end. When you’re planning something on this scale it’s right to be sensibly paranoid,” he said.Īfter nearly two years constructing the new 2.5km section of pipe, United Utilities handed the entire site to framework contractor Mott Macdonald Bentley to complete the connections. This time we were working during a pandemic and we had biblical rain like you wouldn’t believe. You’d think it would get easier but it doesn’t. “This is only the third time in its life that the aqueduct has ever been drained and I’ve been there every time.

Project Director John Hilton said every hour of every day had been planned in meticulous detail to make sure it went smoothly. United Utilities connected four new 1.6m diameter pipes into the Haweswater Aqueduct – the huge underground structure supplying a third of the North West’s water – in under eight days.Ĭonnecting the brand new section near Hallbank meant shutting down the aqueduct for the shortest period possible and marked its first major repair in the 65 years since it was built.

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A crack team of 180 specialist engineers have pulled off the biggest plumbing job in the North West near Kendal despite severe storms and the effects of the COVID pandemic.

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