If you wondered what Anglian Water was up to down at the forge , here
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At a recent Parish Council meeting there was some puzzlement that Anglian Water had started bore hole work behind the forge. The lack of any planning application exercised some but although now private companies these utilities enjoy the same sort of freedomn of action as the old public utilities had. Rightly or wrongly.
But I wondered what was going on and after an effective little trail of Tweets I got the following information:
The borehole is 85 metres deep. It is an identical design to the existing one on site which was drilled 20 years ago. It will be used to provide additional standby to the source. The borehole is drilled according to strict engineering standards with 24m of solid steel casing used to line the upper section. There is no risk of slumping to any local buildings, nearest being 150m.
Shortly after I had a call from a local manager who was able to explain that water from these bore holes does actually come out of our taps - local water as it were. He told me that it was treated here in Lyng and put into the local water supply system which is pressurised from the Honingham water tower. So there it is - turn on the tap and you have Lyng water! I fdind that a neat idea.
For the record while it only takes weeks to drill the bore and a few more to test it and then to install the control equipment, it takes rather longer to meet all the regulations of the Environment Agency rules - six more months in fact!
But I wondered what was going on and after an effective little trail of Tweets I got the following information:
The borehole is 85 metres deep. It is an identical design to the existing one on site which was drilled 20 years ago. It will be used to provide additional standby to the source. The borehole is drilled according to strict engineering standards with 24m of solid steel casing used to line the upper section. There is no risk of slumping to any local buildings, nearest being 150m.
Shortly after I had a call from a local manager who was able to explain that water from these bore holes does actually come out of our taps - local water as it were. He told me that it was treated here in Lyng and put into the local water supply system which is pressurised from the Honingham water tower. So there it is - turn on the tap and you have Lyng water! I fdind that a neat idea.
For the record while it only takes weeks to drill the bore and a few more to test it and then to install the control equipment, it takes rather longer to meet all the regulations of the Environment Agency rules - six more months in fact!