The responsibility of two TBMs to be deployed on Southern Water\u2019s Southampton Link Main (SLM) pipeline was up to local children an the machines have been named after Celtic goddess Ancasta, who was associated with Hampshire\u2019s River Itchen, and 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning, who was renowned for her significant discoveries of fossils along the Dorset coast.
\nLinking to two underground reservoirs, in Yew Hill to the north where a new storage tank is being built, and at a site on the outskirts of Southampton, this 19km-long pipeline will run underground. Enabling Southern Water to decrease the amount of water its takes from the Test and Itchen chalk streams will be the advantage of this reservoirs.
\nWhile most of the pipeline are due to be laid by digging trenches, installing the pipeline and then backfilling, the TBMs are going to drill deeper tunnels where it is necessary to avoid disruption to major roads, railway lines or ecological sites.
\nThe works will be delivered in partnership with MGjv, a joint venture between M Group Water and Galliford Try.
\nThe scheduled time duration for completing SLM that will cost over than \u00a3100m and is three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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