Tap into better water service

May 9 2008 Chester Chronicle

A £14M improvement programme to a water treatment works that supplies 110,000 people in the Chester area has been completed.

Dee Valley Water has now finished the work at its 17-acre Boughton Water Treatment Works site. Planning for the extensive programme began in 2005 and construction has taken two years to complete.

Boughton Treatment Works’ redevelopment has involved a large amount of excavation and the construction of a new filter building as well as the installation of new treated-water pumps to maintain water pressure.

The new works have been constructed inside two of the old filters and special precautions were taken to ensure that demands from customers were available throughout the construction.

The treatment works can now process up to 36,000 tonnes of water each day, which is pumped from the River Dee into reservoirs at the site before being treated.

Dee Valley Water’s managing director, Bryn Bellis, said: “Maintaining and improving water quality and reliability were key issues in carrying out the necessary works at Boughton.

“It was essential to keep the site running while the new plant was constructed and we have been able to maintain 100% availability throughout the project to avoid any disruption in water supply to our customers.”

One of the UK’s smaller water companies, Dee Valley Water’s levels of service are rated as among the highest in England and Wales.

The company manages a water distribution network of more than 2,000 kilometres of water mains and six treatment works, providing water to over 250,000 people in Cheshire and North East Wales. It has one of the lowest levels of leakage of any water company in England and Wales.