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Meadowhead and Stevenston Storm Water Transfer Scheme By Craig Jackson Late June saw the Scottish Area Young Member’s Network visit Scottish Water’s largest ever storm water transfer scheme at Meadowhead and Stevenston. The project is midway through its construction phase and is on target for completion in late 2013. The young members and three ‘not quite’ so young members witnessed the grand scale of the project and the meticulous attention to detail at ground level. Alistair Graham (Senior Project Manager, Scottish Water) explained that after three years in planning, the construction phase is going well and is really focused on delivering a quality job with as little disruption to the local customers
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as possible. The project team have undertaken a huge amount of stakeholder management to understand historic interests, public use, community activities, geographic aspects and, most importantly, to get to know the people of the Irvine and Kilmarnock areas. Graham Wood (Project Manager, Scottish Water) went on to explain that the construction of 12 miles of pipeline; three substantial new pumping stations; a 10,000 m3 storage tank and several new Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) structures will bring significant environmental improvement to Kilmarnock Water; the River Irvine and to the coastal waters of Irvine Bay in the Firth of Clyde. The new system will substantially reduce unsatisfactory intermittent discharges (UIDs) to the rivers and the Firth.
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(l to r) Rebecca Simister, Elaine Macarthur, Angela Dignan, Kevin Moffat, Sharna Richings, Bethan Akgun, Paul O'Brien, Andrew Morson, Craig Jackson.
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Attenuation tank under construction
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(l to r) Angela Dignan, Bethan Akgun, Andrew Morson, Paul O'Brien, Rebecca Simister, Elaine Macarthur, Sharna Richings, Kevin Moffat, Graham Wood (Project Manager).
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(l to r) Kevin Moffat, Bethan Akgun, Paul O'Brien, Elaine Macarthur, Angela Dignan, Sharna Richings, Andrew Morson.
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Paul and Bethan getting info from Graham Wood
After the project overview the group were treated to a chauffeured trip round a number of key elements of the project. The group visited two completed pumping stations and river crossings before moving onto the under construction storm attenuation tank, large wet wells, pipes being laid in a river bed and a new storm inlet at Meadowhead WWTW. Three of the young members who attended are first year Scottish Water Modern Apprentices who were really pleased to be given the opportunity to see a project of this scale before it is buried! Andrew, Angela and Paul were all impressed with the range of activities, attention to detail and level of thought and planning that went into both the effect on the customers and the environment during construction.
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