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The Chingford Reservoirs are the King George V Reservoir and the William Girling Reservoir, which form part of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain in the London Boroughs of Enfield and Waltham Forest and Epping Forest in Essex. [1] Construction of the King George V Reservoir was started in 1908 and completed in 1912. [2]
The Lee Valley Reservoir Chain is located in the Lee Valley, and comprises 13 reservoirs that supply drinking water to London. [ 1 ] The Reservoir Chain, together with the flood plain which it occupies, is a major geographic constraint; together with the Thames it is one of the two significant topographic features that divide the capital and ...
The water is part of the Chingford Reservoirs Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). [5] It is a major wintering ground for wildfowl and wetland birds, including nationally important numbers of some species. The water also forms a moult refuge for a large population of wildfowl during the late summer months. A total of 85 wetland species ...
Thames Water blamed its failure to deliver the schemes on macroeconomic events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and rises in inflation, plus supply chain problems and competing pressures to create more storm tank capacity. [89] In August 2024, Thames Water was fined £104m by Ofwat for failing to manage its wastewater treatment works and ...
The crisis engulfing Thames Water, which serves 15 million customers in London and the south-east, comes amid renewed focus on the industry which over the last year has been condemned for sewage ...
The Coppermills Water Treatment Works is a large water treatment works in the Lea Valley in east London. Completed in 1969 by the Metropolitan Water Board , [ 1 ] it is now owned and operated by Thames Water .
Thames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half as its debts continued to spiral. The company reported 359 so-called category one to three pollution incidents in the six ...
Thames Water, which has a £14 billion ($17.9 billion) debt pile, anticipates that an extra £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) of equity funding will be needed in the five years to 2030 to help it ...