A £750,000 project to install three huge pipes in the dam at Anglian Water’s Pitsford reservoir got underway last week.
The project will enable the company to rapidly reduce the amount of water in the reservoir if it was ever required in future.
Anglian Water is installing three 100 metres long and 24 inches wide pipes - together they will be able to suck 5,000 litres per second out of the reservoir, doubling the current rate water can be pumped out.
Steve Parker, Project Manager for Anglian Water said that once the project is complete, it would be possible to drain 50 per cent of the reservoir – some eight billion litres of water – in less than three weeks, commenting:
“While it is incredibly unlikely that we’ll ever have to rapidly pump water out of the reservoir at Pitsford, it’s important we would be able to do it safely if it were ever needed. It’s an essential part of the management responsibilities we have to fulfil when we are in charge of a large body of water.”
Work got underway at the start of March underneath and alongside the dam to install the supporting power and vacuum pipework.
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