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March 2018
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essex Water says the tunnelling work it has been carrying out from a compound near the ‘duck pond’ in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve will finally be completed by the end of March, nearly five months later than originally planned. The company reports that it has successfully tunnelled beneath the nearby M4 motorway as part of a scheme to build a vital new sewer pipe for future generations in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. The £15 million Frome Valley Relief Sewer (FVRS) scheme will provide additional capacity for large new housing developments in the area, diverting wastewater flows from South Gloucestershire to the Bristol sewage treatment works in Avonmouth. The section under the M4 forms part of a new 5km-long pipe between Frampton Cotterell
and Bradley Stoke. It completes a “missing link” in the existing FVRS scheme, which was constructed in the 1990s. The work has involved creating a temporary vehicle access point on Bradley Stoke Way and a temporary footpath alongside the existing track between the Bradley Stoke Way bridge and the Three Brooks lake. Scrub clearance began in March 2017, followed by the start of construction and tunnelling works in late April 2017. The work was scheduled to last six months and the temporary access point off Bradley Stoke Way was due to be discontinued and the land returned to its original condition by the end of November 2017. Asked why the work was still going on in late February 2018 (with no updates having appeared on the town council’s dedicated FVRS webpage since
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