Scottish Water has completed work on a new £4 million water treatment plant supplying customers in Stoer and the surrounding area in the West Highlands.
The project was carried out by Scottish Water’s alliance partner ESD and contractor Ross-shire Engineering, with the building phase starting on site in mid-July last year.
The nano-filtration membrane treatment plant was built at Ross-shire Engineering’s facility in Muir of Ord, comprehensively tested, and then split into large transportable sections and reassembled on site.
Joe Syed from ESD said that delivering this type of investment for small, rural communities involved a range of distinctive challenges. The new plant was pre-assembled using state of the art technology in Muir of Ord before delivery to the site, minimising the length of construction work and the associated traffic.
David Kitching of Scottish Water commented:
“This membrane technology is state of art and delivers enhanced filtration to deliver cleaner, fresher drinking water for our customers in the area for the foreseeable future.
“The way we have approach this project has allowed the plant to be constructed in a controlled environment, reducing risk to the workforce, improving quality control and significantly reducing the construction period.
“The new water treatment works also includes additional storage capacity on site and a standby power generator, meaning that it will be more resilient to any disruption caused by severe weather or other possible challenges.”
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