News from the Flood alleviation scheme

For about six months now, Thames Water and their contractor Optimise have been working on the flood alleviation project, which involves digging a huge reservoir under Westbourne Green. While this is progressing well, there is more to happen soon.

Work will continue in Formosa Street through to March 2015, both to connect the new shaft with the existing sewer network under Warwick Avenue and Bristol Gardens, and to get ready for boring a tunnel under Shirland Road, Formosa Street and the Canal. The Tunnel Boring Machine is due to be set up some time in October and the work will go uninterrupted until the reservoir is reached, early in 2015…