A water pumping station in Newcastle upon Tyne is set for a £2 million modernisation.
Northumbrian Water is to upgrade Benwell Pumping Station, which pumps 40 million litres of water every day to a reservoir in the west end of Newcastle. The reservoir supplies water to 30,000 homes in Fenham, Gosforth, Heaton, Jesmond and Kenton.
The work, which will start next week and take up to ten months to complete, will involve building a new, three-pump station within the grounds of the existing pumping station, to replace the existing facility.
The new pumping station will be operational from late December 2010.
Iain Burn, project manager for the scheme, said:
“Northumbrian Water is committed to providing a high quality of service to its customers throughout the region and this work is part of our £1.2 billion investment between 2010 and 2015 to upgrade our vast water and sewerage networks.
“We are constantly looking at more effective and efficient ways to move water around the network. The new station is capable of pumping up to 50 million litres per day.”
The existing pumping station will remain fully operational throughout the work with no interruption to the water supply.
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