Sutton and East Surrey Water is starting work on two separate schemes to secure water supplies costing a combined total of £1.2 million.
Work is getting underway later this month on an £800,000 water main scheme that will protect customers’ drinking water supplies in parts of Bookham, Surrey.
The water company will replace a total of 2.7km of old cast iron water mains with new, tougher plastic pipes that are less prone to bursts and leaks.
Work will also begin next month to replace a water main that was laid just before the break-out of the First World War in Newdigate, Surrey..
The £400,000 scheme will see the company replace a total of 1.5km of old water main - laid in 1913 - with a new, tougher plastic pipe that is less prone to bursts and leaks.
Commenting on both schemes, Chris Burnup, Civil Engineer at Sutton and East Surrey Water, said:
“The existing water mains were laid back in the 1930s and have done a good job transporting thousands of litres of top quality water every day.”
“However, they have now reached the end of their working life – we know this as we’ve seen an increasing number of bursts and leaks occurring.”
“Each time this happens it causes emergency repairs, interruptions to customers’ water supplies and the loss of what is a precious and finite resource.”
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