More than 2km of 12-inch cast-iron pipe between Bicester and Ambrosden will be replaced with tough new plastic pipe. The major project is part of a £1.5m scheme to cut leakage in Oxfordshire and to minimise the risk of interruptions to the water supply.
Thames Water has been granted special permission from English Nature to work near a community of protected a Great Crested Newts.
Lawrence Gosden, Thames Water’s head of capital delivery, said:
"This is a must-do job to improve the water supply network over the long term for our customers in Oxfordshire.
"We’d ask people to bear with us in the knowledge that the purpose of this project is to reduce the number of disruptive burst and leaky pipes in the area by replacing creaky old cast-iron mains with tough, new plastic ones less prone to breaks and leaks."
The work will start on Thursday, October 6 and will be ongoing until February 2012.
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