22 Sep 2022
Anglian Water has confirmed the proposed location for a new reservoir in Lincolnshire, south-east of Sleaford, about halfway between Grantham and Boston, the company has reported. The reservoir will supply enough water for around half a million homes, as well as protecting the environment by allowing Anglian to reduce the amount of water taken from […]
21 Jul 2022
The Government has today (20 July, 2022) committed to improving reservoir safety through reforms to the regulatory regime and modernisation of the Reservoirs Act 1975 as it accepted all of the recommendations of the second part of an independent review by Professor David Balmforth. With the review recognising the strong safety track record of reservoirs in England, the […]
13 Jul 2021
Bristol Water will monitor all 15 of their dams from space with HR Wallingford’s pioneering DAMSAT system, the first commercially available technology of its kind. The move demonstrates its continued commitment to protecting downstream communities and will help the water company comply with the recommendations in the Balmforth review, published recently in the wake of […]
18 Mar 2020
Toddbrook reservoir report published Read the report . Balmforth doesn’t pull his punches Exec Summary: final para ‘CRT have remained compliant with the legislation for the entire time they have had responsibility for the reservoir. The EA have not had to issue any enforcement notices. However, both CRT and the EA have stated that compliance […]
15 Aug 2019
After Whaley Bridge there will be growing focus on dam safety and the operators of this ageing infrastructure (continue) The end of emergency and the ongoing pumping set up – watch the video (continue) The summer floods of 2019 gave rise to the major emergency at the Whale Bridge reservoir. Once the immediate danger had […]
25 Apr 2018
The Angling Trust: ‘In response to Thames Water’s draft 2019 Water Resource Management Plan (WRMP), the Angling Trust has called for the long-promised investment in a new reservoir at Abingdon in Oxfordshire to begin immediately rather than delayed until 2044. The Trust believes that the over reliance on demand management and leakage in the current […]
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