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Ashton WwTW

The following is an extract from a recent article in Construction News about the £35m scheme at Ashton WwTW.

"One man’s muck is another man’s brass and judging by the amount of cash wrapped up in building the Ashton-under-Lyne Waste Water Treatment. Works there is an awful lot of muck that needs to be treated inthis part of East Manchester. It is 54 megalitres per day to be exact – that is how much sewerage effluent the new £35 million works will treat when it is running at capacity in a little over a year’s time. Before that, water and wastewater network provider United Utilities and the other members of the Integrated Alliance+project delivery partnership tackling the scheme – KMI Plus (a partnership between Kier Construction, Murphy Group and Interserve Project Services), GCA JV (a joint venture between Galliford Try, Costain and Atkins), engineer MWH and detailed civil design subcontractors GHA Livigunn – must keep on top of a difficult project on a constricted, existing treatment site that has to remain operational throughtout...... "

 

To read the complete article from Construction News please click here