Work on Scottish Water’s £4.6 million water mains upgrade in Oban, Argyll & Bute has entered its final stage and is nearing completion.
Work first started in November 2020 on the £4.6 million investment to carry out essential upgrades to infrastructure on the water network. The upgrade will help improve resilience of the water supply and reduce the risk of bursts on the network.
The project, which has been carried out in two major phases, has involved replacing pipework, round-the-clock drilling to tunnel beneath an important railway line and the installation of an additional 500 metres of new pipes up to the Tullich water treatment works.
The first phase, which took around 6 months to complete, started in November 2020 and involved laying 1.8km of new pipe.
The water company’s delivery partner Caledonia Water Alliance will spend the next few weeks tying in the newly installed pipework to the existing network and reinstatement of all work areas.
Georgina Reid, Scottish Water’s corporate affairs regional manager said:
“This has been a complex project from the very start, but a huge amount of effort has gone in to making it run as smoothly as possible.
“We are now in the closing stages, connecting and testing the new sections of pipework to the network and reinstating the areas where we have been working.
“This is a much-needed project to improve the resilience of the supply to our customers and I am delighted it is nearly complete.”
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