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In March 2003 Thames Water identified that by 2005 there would be a deficit in water treatment and supply capacity in North London. To address this deficit a new water treatment facility was constructed on 1.5 ha site adjacent to the William Girling reservoir and the A110 road ( 51°38′11″N 0°00′57″W / 51.63629°N 0.01582°W ...
Thames Water Utilities Limited, [3] trading as Thames Water, is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment in most of Greater London, Luton, the Thames Valley, Surrey, Gloucestershire, north Wiltshire, far west Kent, and some other parts of England.
Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, formerly known as Barking Sewage Works, is a large sewage treatment plant in Beckton in the east London Borough of Newham, operated by Thames Water. Since construction first began in 1864, the plant has been extended numerous times and now covers over 100 hectares (250 acres) - the largest sewage treatment works ...
By 2011, the site was the fourth largest of the sewage treatment works operated by Thames Water, and served a population equivalent of 885,000. Much of the equipment was in need of renewal, and levels of suspended solids , biochemical oxygen demand and total ammonia allowed in treated effluent were to be lowered from 31 March 2017, under the ...
Hampton Water Treatment Works buildings alongside the A308. Hampton Water Treatment Works are water treatment works located on the River Thames in Hampton, London.Built in the second half of the 19th century to supply London with fresh water, the waterworks was in the past a significant local employer, and its brick Italianate pumphouses dominate the local landscape. [1]
In 1947 the Metropolitan Water Board proposed to construct a new water treatment works between Ashford and Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, (51.41772°N 0.43802°W). The works would draw water from the adjacent Queen Mary Reservoir through a tunnel 100-inches (2.54 metres) diameter or from the Staines Reservoir Aqueduct.
The Metropolis Water Act 1852 prohibited the extraction of water for household purposes from the tidal Thames. The Lambeth Waterworks Company anticipated this by choosing to build their works at Seething Wells in 1847, which were purchased around 1849, and completed and opened in 1852.
In 2010–14 the Crossness works were upgraded at a cost of £220 million, increasing capacity by 44% to reduce storm sewage flowing into the Thames during heavy rainfall. The upgrade involved the installation of new renewable energy sources including a 2.3 MW wind turbine, a thermal hydrolysis plant, an advanced digestion plant, and an odour ...