By Lynda Myer
The TBM, which is slated to be used for Scottish Water’s Glasgow Resilience Project, is going to be named by a Glasgow schoolgirl that has won the competition.
Nieve O’Hara, a pupil at Our Lady of the Rosary Primary in Cardonald, took the prize with the name Cruella de Drill.
The responsibility of installing a 252m stretch of trunk main 20m beneath the White Cart Water as well as the Paisley Canal railway line in the Nethercraigs area of the city, will be up to this TBM.
Additionally, concrete pipes 1500mm in diameter will be pipe-jacked into position at the rear of the TBM and a 900mm ductile iron water main will be installed inside.
The estimated time duration for completion of this work is around six weeks.
Linking the Glasgow area’s network with the system in Ayrshire to improve security of supply, the Glasgow Resilience Project is going to benefit almost one million Scottish Water customers.
Considering that the Milngavie Water Treatment Works system provides water for over than 700,000 people across much of the Glasgow area, and the Bradan Water Treatment Works system, which supplies more than 200,000 customers across much of Ayrshire, it will provide a two-way water supply among these areas, whereas it is due to benefit almost 50,000 customers in East Renfrewshire.
Transfer of millions liters of water in either direction in the case of a disruption to water supply in either Ayrshire or Glasgow, will be done by the new system.
While delivery of this project for Scottish Water is up to Caledonia Water Alliance, a Morrison Water Services and Aecom joint venture, the scheduled date for completion of the project is 2024.
