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HUNGERFORD RESERVOIR PROJECT NEARING COMPLETION
scheme to improve the management of local water supplies in Hungerford is almost finished, Thames Water told The Adviser today. In mid February the company started work to increase the capacity of the town’s reservoir by a third. The £800,000 project is now in its final stages ahead of a four-week testing period to ensure the extension to the reservoir is working as planned. Hungerford is a ‘storage reservoir,’ a covered-over holding tank that stores treated water on its way to 2,800 properties in the area. The expanded reservoir will ensure there is always sufficient water readily available at peak times of day. Hungerford’s water is taken from underground boreholes. It is cleaned and treated before being pumped to the reservoir, off Salisbury Road. The treated water is then fed on demand into the local mains network to go to people’s taps as Let people know about and when they need it. your service through After customers have used the The Adviser water, the resulting wastewater is
treated at the town’s sewage works and fed back into the River Kennet. Lawrence Gosden, Thames Water’s head of capital delivery, said: “All Hungerford’s water comes from the Kennet catchment and is returned there after it is used, causing no lasting environmental impact on this important chalk stream and the wildlife habitats it supports. “The aim of this work to expand the reservoir is to manage local water resources more effectively over the long term by increasing the treated water we hold in the reservoir. “It will also allow us to carry out maintenance work at the site with minimal disruption to customers’ supplies.” Thames Water supplies 2.6bn litres of water a day to its 8.8m tap water customers, recycling 14m people’s wastewater and run-off surface water – more than 4bn litres a day – safely back to the environment 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. -Simon Evans
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