| The work, costing in excess of £4 million, is due to be completed in May 2009 and will result in fresher water for around 212,000 people served by the pipeline in Dundee and parts of Angus and Perthshire. A superior treatment process will ensure less waste and improve the appearance and taste of the water supply.
Dundee’s Lord Provost John Letford was given a guided tour of the treatment works by Scottish Water officials today.
He said, “The foresight and imagination of the city fathers in the 19th century created one of the cleanest and healthiest water supplies to any city in the country at the time the Clatto Reservoir was built.
“Scottish Water is carrying on that tradition of far-sightedness with its current work at the Clatto Treatment Works.”
Over £16million has been spent on improving the water supply to the area, including a new underground reservoir.
A 27 km water main between Loch of Lintrathen to Clatto Treatment Works was opened in 2003 at a cost of £14 million, replacing two mains that dated back to the 1870s and 1950s.
Between now and 2009, Scottish Water will invest £122 million in the Tayside region as part of a £2.4 billion programme of capital investment that will upgrade Scotland’s Victorian water infrastructure. |
