Southern Water upgrades Morestead Road Wastewater Treatment Works

Southern Water has completed £9m improvements of Morestead Road Wastewater Treatment Works in Winchester, UK.

The improvements programme includes construction of three aeration lanes which pump oxygen into the wastewater to help the waste-digesting bacteria to thrive.

A new ferric dosing plant has been installed to remove phosphate along with new pumps, tanks and treatment systems that will help to meet increasingly strict Environment Agency standards.

Project manager Jon Kenrick said: "Morestead Road serves a population of more than 36,000 people in the area, and this significant investment will help ensure we continue to cater for them while also meeting increasingly tough environmental standards."

Southern Water’s supplier 4Delivery carried out the project in June 2012. The company will remain on-site for another month or so while it carries out extra improvements identified during the project.

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Image: Southern Water completes work on £9m improvements. Photo: courtesy of Southern Water.