The water main is formed of twin steel tubes within the tunnel. They can be contacted via phone at (757) 357-4935 for pricing, hours and directions. In the late 1960s, construction of a new treatment works next to the storage reservoirs began. It operates in two geographically distinct areas, one serving parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the other serving parts of Essex and Greater London. It is part of the Northumbrian Water Group. Both were owned by the French company Lyonnaise des Eaux-Dumez [fr] at the time. Water … By this time the Lowestoft Water and Gas Company was known as the Lowestoft Water Company, as all gas companies had been nationalised in 1948. The main contractors for the project were W&C French, and it took around 5 years to complete, with the treatment works beginning production in August 1956. How water/sewer rates are determined. Water was obtained from boreholes sunk into the chalk aquifer underlying the area, but by the time of the First World War, these supplies were not sufficient to meet the demand for water, and so the company looked further afield. They built a waterworks at Ormesby Broad, from where water flowed by gravity into Great Yarmouth. How do I report sewer backups, overflows, or water leaks? The bill faced a rough passage through Parliament, as there were objections to parts of it from Norfolk County Council, the Great Yarmouth Corporation, the Great Yarmouth Court Commissioners, the London Drainage Commissioners, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and some private individuals. These are isolated from the River Bure by a narrow channel, and have been further protected by the installation of a sluice gate. Twin shafts, 23 feet (7 m) in diameter and 66 feet (20 m) deep were excavated, and 490 feet (150 m) of 5-foot (1.5 m) diameter bored tunnel passed under both the road and the railway. A 1.25-mile (2.01 km) mass earth dam with a puddle clay core was built across the north-east edge of the site, and a new 9-mile (14 km) pipeline was built from the Langford pumping station to supply the reservoir. [6] There were used in pairs, and each drove a low lift pump to transfer water to the treatment works, and a high lift pump to take treated water and pump it along a 28-inch (71 cm) cast iron pipe to Southend. One condition of the Act was that the company had to supply water to other local authorities which were outside their original supply area. ... Company Number: 02366703. If you can’t find the email from membership@chamberofcommerce.com in your inbox, check your “Junk” folder. A pumping station pumped up to 35 million imperial gallons (160 Ml) of water per day to the new Abberton Reservoir, and a new treatment works was built at Layer de la Haye near its northern shore. Two steam engines raised the water up to some filter beds. The project cost £260,000, and was formally inaugurated on 31 October 1963, when Sir George Chaplin, the Chairman of Essex County Council switched on the new pumps.