Anglian Water has today unveiled a huge capital investment programme for the year ahead, worth £470million across the East of England, which is the driest and one of the fastest growing parts of the country.
The investment will be targeted at maintaining and improving customer services across the East of England. The funds will be ploughed into the areas that customers say matter most to them including reducing leakage even further, providing top quality drinking water, protecting against severe weather such as drought and flooding and tackling the impacts of climate change.
This is the final year of Anglian Water’s AMP6 £5 billion capital investment programme between 2015 and 2020.
Schemes over the next 12 months which make up the £470million investment programme include:
- £28 million to keep leakage levels at industry-leading lows. By 2020 Anglian will have invested an additional £60million in a war on leakage, bringing the five-year total spent on fighting leaks to a colossal £128million.
- £91 million improving, maintaining and refurbishing hundreds of water treatment works and water recycling centres across the Anglian Water estate.
- £30 million maintaining, refurbishing and renewing parts of the 37,000km water pipe network.
- £28 million maintaining, refurbishing and replacing parts of the 70,000km sewer network.
- £28 million to extend and upgrade Water Recycling Centres to accommodate the growing population in the region.
- £15 million keeping sewers clear of fatbergs and wipes£11million to connect hundreds more rural homes to the mains sewerage network for the first time, totalling £70million by 2020.
- £4 million to reduce flooding from sewers as part of a £45million focus that will protect hundreds of properties from flooding by 2020. £1.5million will also be put up for matched funding to get more partnership flood schemes
- £2 million will be invested in innovation in the third year of Anglian Water’s Smarter Drop initiative, aiming to create the water network of the future
- £200,000 to protect the region’s coastal waters by investigating sources of agricultural and urban pollution, and to work with the farming community to protect the rivers and boreholes that provide raw drinking water.
- Over £12 million will be spent fitting free water meters, replacing old ones, and offering free water saving devices to help customers become more water efficient.
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