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Bicester gets tough pipes
Thames Water is replacing a section of worn-out, century-old water main that has burst three times in three years between Bicester and Amrosden, located in the UK.
More than 2 km of 12 inch cast-iron pipe between Bicester and Ambrosden will be replaced with tough new plastic pipe.
The major project is part of a £1.5m scheme to cut leakage in Oxfordshire and to minimise the risk of interruptions to the water supply.
Thames Water has been granted special permission from English Nature to work near a community of protected a Great Crested Newts.
Thames Water’s Head of Capital Delivery Lawrence Gosden said, “This is a must-do job to improve the water supply network over the long term for our customers in Oxfordshire.
“We’d ask people to bear with us in the knowledge that the purpose of this project is to reduce the number of disruptive burst and leaky pipes in the area by replacing creaky old cast-iron mains with tough, new plastic ones less prone to breaks and leaks.
There will be no road closures in place although there will be some traffic management along the route of the pipe on the A41 from Bicester, along Ploughey Road and into Ambrosden Village.
Work is set to commence 6 October and will be ongoing until February 2012.