Kier picked for £6m water treatment scheme
Kier has been appointed to attain the stage one function and enabling works leading into the attain for stage two for the contrivance at Thorpe Hesley in Rotherham.
The mission is a part of the Coal Authority’s formulation to managing the threat of rising mine water in old fashioned underground coal workings.
Kier will function and manufacture a pumped-passive mine water treatment contrivance that will likely be made up of settlement ponds, reed beds and related pipework on a 5-hectare role on land adjacent to the dilapidated colliery role. The mine water will likely be treated by means of an aeration cascade and a procedure of settlement ponds and reed beds and then the treated water will likely be discharged into the watercourse.
The function part began in August 2024. After the attain part is finished, bushes and bushes will likely be planted, alongside with wildflowers, to present unique flora and fauna habitats.
Eddie Quinn, managing director for Kier’s Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks’ Ambiance alternate, acknowledged: “We’ve been working carefully with the Coal Authority and applying our abilities and experience designing and constructing engineering schemes with fundamental lengthy-term habitat introduction to present a enhance to the wants of this contrivance in Yorkshire.”
James Bagnall, coal programme lead on the Coal Authority, acknowledged: “The Coal Authority manages over 80 mine water treatment schemes throughout Britain, handling and treating over 122 billion litres of water a 365 days. At Thorpe Hesley, mine water ranges had been rising for the reason that Eighties and this fundamental mine water treatment contrivance will help to guard drinking water and the local ambiance.”
The contract was once awarded by means of the Pagabo public sector procurement framework.
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