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Anglian Water marks halfway point in new Lincoln to Grantham pipeline Anglian Water has reached the halfway point on the first section of new major pipeline route between Lincoln and Ancaster. The pipeline is the inaugural scheme for Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA), which will in total create hundreds of kilometers of interconnecting pipelines, making it longer than the M6, and the largest water infrastructure project the UK has seen for a generation.
will create the ability to move water in stages from wetter parts of north Lincolnshire to the south and east of the region, where it is less readily available. The new pipeline will also strengthen local resilience by reducing the number of homes and businesses which rely on a single water source.
This long-term project will be crucial in addressing the predicted future imbalance where demand for water greatly outstrips the available resources in the east of England. It
As work continues on the first section, the water company has now submitted further planning applications to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Local Planning
The strategic pipeline is vital in addressing the predicted ‘jaws of death’ moment for water availability in the East of England – the point at which demand for water greatly outstrips the available supply. James Crompton, Strategic Pipeline Alliance Director for Anglian Water
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Authorities for permission to begin work on a further 99km of pipeline running from Grantham in Lincolnshire to Bexwell in Norfolk. This section of pipeline will run from Wilsford Heath, south of Ancaster, via Welby Heath, to the east of Grantham, down to Etton, near Peterborough, ending at Bexwell, near Downham Market. It will include two new pumping stations and a new covered treated water reservoir at Welby Heath. Subject to planning consent work will commence on site later in 2022. The mammoth project is part of Anglian’s Water Resources Management Plan, which looks 25 years ahead to make the East resilient to drought. Without taking this action, the East of England would face a water deficit of 30 million litres a day by 2025 due to the combined impact of a rapidly growing population, climate change, and being located in the most water-scarce part of the UK. That’s a shortfall of 4,380 Olympic swimming pools of water, every year. Strategic Pipeline Alliance Director for Anglian Water, James Crompton said: “The strategic
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