California is proposing its most ambitious water project in a half-century. At $15.7 billion, it would run two giant tunnels, each four stories high, for 35 miles under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California, sending water to cities and farms to the south.
Sutton and East Surrey Water’s £22m project to upgrade Woodmansterne Treatment Works in Chipstead, Surrey, has been awarded to Doosan Enpure who will deliver the works as principal contractor.
According to Rigzone, 71% of respondents in a survey of 963 UK oil workers are considering moving overseas to find work due to a lack of job security in the North Sea and Scotland. 52% of those surveyed by Rigzone also reported a lack of co...
Northumbrian Water’s Warkworth Water Treatment Works (WTW) is to undergo a £2.2m refurbishment in a bid to help maintain and enhance top quality drinking water for the future. The facility currently treats up to 42 mill...
United Utilities has started work on a major sewer improvement scheme in Trafford Park, Manchester. Gloria, a 140 tonne tunnel boring machine, has begun digging beneath Trafford Park as part of a project to improve the water quality in the Manchester Ship Canal.
Completion of Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) has moved a step closer since the take-over of Section Five having been granted at the site by Thames Water. Section Six – the final scope of the works – is expected to be completed by March 2015.
Northumbrian Water is currently advertising a new design and construction framework worth £320m which covers the AMP6 spending period. It is now looking for three contractors to deliver water and wastewater treatment works over the next ten years.
Working in partnership, Southwark Council and Thames Water, with the support of the Environment Agency, are delivering a project on behalf of Thames Water to reduce the risk of sewer and surface water flooding in the Dulwich and Herne Hill area.
The 3.1 mile waste water tunnel will be a major part of Scottish Water’s £250m five-year programme to upgrade the waste water network in the Glasgow area. The tunnel will be the biggest storm water tunnel in Scotland and will im...
A BAM Nuttall and Mott Macdonald joint venture has been awarded a works contract for a flood alleviation scheme in Leeds, designed to provide Leeds homes and businesses with protection from a 1 in 75 year flood from the River Aire and Hol Beck.
Southern water has invested £25m on upgrading the Millbrook wastewater treatment works due to the need to cut nitrogen levels in effluent water being discharged into the Test Estuary. The main driver behind this project is du...
The 25km Thames Tideway Tunnel project has been given the go-ahead. The £4.2b scheme will modernise London’s Victorian sewerage system and tackle sewage discharges into the Thames.
Preliminary work is set to begin in Cockington Lane Sewage Pumping Station in Torbay to build a 360 metre underground storm storage tank. The scheme is part of a £5m project by South West Water to improve the cleanliness of bathing water in the local area.
MWH has been appointed by Southern Water as its new strategic solutions partner for the AMP6 period, between 2015 and 2020. During this time, MWH will deliver the company’s £3.1bn business plan.
On 4th August, Yorkshire Water will commence a £2.9 million project in Scotton near Knaresborough to reduce the chances of people’s houses in the area from being flooded with sewage. Two large new sewers totalling 5km in length will be la...