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New pipe for resilience scheme
GPS PE Pipe Systems is helping to
ensure continuity of water supply to
the Blandford area of Dorset, UK, with
the supply of a pipeline that will link
Snowsdon Reservoir to Black Lane
water treatment works, then on to the
Blandford supply main.
The scheme forms part of Wessex
Water’s Water Supply Grid initiative,
the company’s largest ever resilience
project and one that will see Wessex
Water carry out 50 individual schemes
across Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset
during an eight-year rolling programme.
As Wessex Water’s framework PE pipe
supplier, GPS has supplied more than
26km of pipe for Water Supply Grid
projects so far, including the 2,300m
of pipe supplied for the Black Lane
scheme.
Delivered by Trant Construction, the
Black Lane scheme aims to address
any risk of future supply shortfalls that
result from increased demand and
potential low pressure due to the size
of the existing main. GPS has provided
a mix of pipe sizes ranging from 180
to 450mm diameter in blue PE100
SDR17 pipe, along with special high
performance profiled gaskets for critical
road crossings.
Specialist contractor Yates Trenchless
Solutions carried out directional drilling
for the road crossings, installing two
355mm water mains under the A354
at Blandford and a 180mm SDR11
telemetry duct along a 120m stretch of
pipeline at 3m centres.
Martin Wood, Wessex Water’s design
coordinator on the Water Supply Grid
project, commented, “By working with
GPS as the pipe supplier we were able
to tailor the size of pipe to the required
flow rate at different sections of the
route. The result is a scheme that will
minimise the risk of low pressures within
Blandford.”
GPs Pe Pipe systems
– UK
GPS has supplied 2,300m of pipe for the Black Lane scheme
