Essex Water completes 19.5km pipeline

Pipelaying on a 19.5km water pipeline that will protect water supplies and the environment in Essex is now complete.

Essex & Suffolk Water is investing £20m in the pipeline, which will help to connect and balance the way the water company uses its raw water resources in the Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford areas.

Following this milestone, work now continues on the reinstatement of land, as well as testing and the eventual commissioning of the pipeline, which will be capable of carrying up to 50 million litres of water a day to be treated at the company’s water treatment works at Langford.

The pipeline is expected to be in use from spring of 2025, adding resilience to supplies for more than 370,000 of the company’s customers.

Daniel Wilson, Project Manager at Essex & Suffolk Water, said:

“The construction of this pipeline is a huge and exciting milestone for us, and is really important for our customers, whose supplies will be protected. The project is also great news for the environment, because it will enable even better management of the county’s raw water resources.

“Additionally, using our own in-house teams to deliver the project, we’re on track to complete the work at a much lower cost than we had planned, helping to protect customers’ bills.

“While there is still a lot of work to be done before we see the pipeline in use in 2025, customers who have become used to seeing the project team and our chains of blue pipes along the landscape, will slowly see that presence reduce as we near completion of work.”

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