United Utilities has awarded an £85 million contract for its Bridge End to Williamsgate raw water aqueduct scheme - part of the 100km pipeline scheme Thirlmere Transfer West Cumbria Water Supplies Project - to a joint venture betweenFarrans Construction (trading as a division of Northstone (NI) Ltd and its design partner Atkins.
The scheme includes building a new water treatment works and several pumping stations, with a further treated water trunk main proposed from Bridekirk treatment works to Summergrove service reservoir near Whitehaven. Five existing water treatment works will be decommissioned once the new pipeline is operational.
A detailed planning application is shortly due for submission this month to Allerdale Borough and Copeland Borough Councils. The four and a half year project, part of the £300m Thirlmere Transfer West Cumbria Water Supplies Project, is scheduled to start in March 2017.
Public exhibitions and further stakeholder communication about the scheme will take place in Phase 4 of the project between March 2016 and September 2016.
J Murphy & Sons has separately been appointed on a £1.3m design contract covering its early involvement in this section of the scheme.
The joint venture between Atkins and Farrans was one of two organisations to bid for the contract..
The estimated total value for the aqueduct contract is put at £85,445,851.
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