THAMES WATER

[Scubadog]

Reading got a shiny new system in 2005 - but part of it's original design (and extra cost) was dictated by the massive courage brewery's waste water flow - which promptly shut.

£80m to replace a victorian treatment works that hadnt been updated since the 60's - so not sure why now costs billions and billions

Reading Sewage Treatment Works, Reading - Water Technology

www.water-technology.net

he pasteurised sludge is subsequently pumped to four bottom-fed, egg-shaped, anaerobic digesters, each some 20m high. These are the first of their kind in the country, constructed entirely from reinforced concrete with external silver cladding. The heat required for the pasteurisation and digestion processes is provided either by digester biogas through CHP engines or three dual fuel (biogas / diesel) boilers.

The final digestate is dewatered by centrifuge and transferred to one of three sludge cake silos for storage, while the thickener and dewaterer liquors are returned to the effluent stream for treatment. This liquor return is important since the sustainability of biological phosphorus removal is partly dependent on the mass of phosphorus returned in this way.

A new treatment plant wont solve the current issues.
Again, you cant treat rain water...hence a few millions wont solve it. Only separation of the two will solve it....hence ripping up peoples driveways, and laying an entire new system (hence the billions).

 

[IanSuth]

A new treatment plant wont solve the current issues.
Again, you cant treat rain water...hence a few millions wont solve it. Only separation of the two will solve it....hence ripping up peoples driveways, and laying an entire new system (hence the billions).

My road has been ripped up twice last 2 years (thames water redoing potable water pipes and Morrison's relining gas pipes with plastic) 3 years ago it was SEC putting in an 11kva feed - it is up again next year for city fibre.

If they liaised they could do major works together and save a fortune - but i know a central co-ordinated roadworks database has been being tried since Dec were building one in the mid 90's running on Rdb on Vax's so i wont hold my breath, That one was scrapped due to privatisation making co-ordination harder

EDIT forgot to say, TW were marking white crosses by everyones stop taps a couple of weeks ago as apparently we are getting meters whether we like it or not - why didnt they do that when they redid the pipes to the stopcock

 

[Scubadog]

My road has been ripped up twice last 2 years (thames water redoing potable water pipes and Morrison's relining gas pipes with plastic) 3 years ago it was SEC putting in an 11kva feed - it is up again next year for city fibre.

If they liaised they could do major works together and save a fortune - but i know a central co-ordinated roadworks database has been being tried since Dec were building one in the mid 90's running on Rdb on Vax's so i wont hold my breath, That one was scrapped due to privatisation making co-ordination harder

EDIT forgot to say, TW were marking white crosses by everyones stop taps a couple of weeks ago as apparently we are getting meters whether we like it or not - why didnt they do that when they redid the pipes to the stopcock

The utilities are not laid together. I knownit sounds a nice idea to have them all done at the same time, but coordination is near impossible.

For example, water would need to be scheduled and outage planned with resources re routed. Often avoided in the summer due to increase demand.

Gas on the other hand, need to do the same and always try to avoid the winter....due to increased demands.

So it is often better to do water first, then gas, then electric then comms........then resurface it once (though thay often doesn't happen).