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Latest Photographs

Latest photographs of the Glencorse WTW Project. Progress on the treatment works site and along the pipeline route will be shown here. Please click on the thumbnails below to see enlarged images.

August 2010

Main Treatment Building and Intake Building Glencorse site with partially laid green roof
Area at Damhead where the twin pipelines split Tunnelling work about to begin under the Edinburgh City Bypass

July 2010

Inside Main Treatment Building Birch wood cladding on end of treatment building
Main Treatment Building and Chlorine Contact Tank Inside Clear Water Tank
On top of green roof looking towards Clear Water Tank Green roof and Intake Building
Main Glencorse Site with partially laid green roof Main treatment building and intake building
Green roof blending in with the surrounding landscape Pentland Road crossing

June 2010

Main Glencorse Site with Clear Water Tank almost complete Chlorine contact tank, main treatment building and intake building
Work being done in preparation for Pentland Road crossing Soil stripped in working area on approach to Alnwickhill WTW

May 2010

Treatment Building and Clear Water Tank Main Site
View of the area where twin pipeline splits to go to Fairmilehead and Alnwickhill Pipeline crossing Frogston Road in Edinburgh

April 2010

Distance photograph of Glencorse Site Clear Water Tank
View into Main Treatment Building and Intake Building Pipeline route approaching Frogston Road in Edinburgh

March 2010

Clear Water Tank and Treatment Building View of site from the South East
View into Main Treatment Building Pipeline route

February 2010

Glencorse site from a distance Main Treatment Building and Chlorine Contact Tank
Intake & Power Generation Building and Main Treatment Building Pipeline route

January 2010

Glencorse site from a distance Clear Water Tank
View into Main Treatment Building Treatment Building, Chlorine Contact Tank and Clear Water Tank
Main treatment building Working on the roof of the Clear Water Tank
Chemical storage containers Pipework inside the main treatment building

December 2009

Treatment buildings Clear Water Tank
Intake & Power Generation Building and Treatment Building Pipeline route

November 2009

Treatment buildings Construction site from a distance
Intake & Power Generation Building, Treatment Building and Chlorine Contact Tank Clear Water Tank

October 2009

Pipelines that will take the treated water to Edinburgh View into the Clear Water Tank where the first of almost 500 columns are being constructed
Treatment tanks being water tested Pipeline route approaching the main site
Cranes operating over the main treatment building First columns being constructed in Clear Water Tank
View of whole site Pipeline route approaching the main site

September 2009

Pipeline crossing burn Main Treatment Building
Treatment Building and Intake & Power Generation Building Clear Water Tank

August 2009

Main site Pipeline route
Clear water tank Treatment Building

July 2009

Flocculation tanks Main Treatment Building
View inside the treatment building Back-filling of soil around the Treatment Building
View of the surrounding area Construction of the Clear Water Tank
Main construction site Pipeline route at Bush Loan Road

June 2009

Pipeline Route First pipe in the trench
Main treatment building Clear Water Tank excavation

May 2009

Excavation of Clear Water Tank Main treatment building
Main treatment building Pipeline route

April 2009

Inspection of new pipes at pipe manufacturing plant View of treatment building from North East
View of treatment building from South West Excavation of clear water tank
Main site and surrounding area Main site
Treatment building concrete works Pipe manufacturing plant

March 2009

Main site Treatment building concrete works
Treatment building concrete works Treatment building concrete works

February 2009

Raw Water Main Diversions Temporary Detention Ponds
Glencorse Main Site Treatment building excavation

5th January 2009

Raw Water Main Diversions Treatment Building Excavation
Glencorse Main Site Temporary Detention Ponds

25th November 2008

Fairmilehead WTW (Edinburgh) - will be replaced by Glencorse WTW Alnwickhill WTW (Edinburgh) - will be replaced by Glencorse WTW
Glencorse WTW under construction - looking East Temporary detention ponds for surface water management during construction
Glencorse WTW under construction - looking NW Land adjacent to the A720 City Bypass on pipeline route

14th November 2008

Construction of Detention Ponds Construction of Detention Ponds
Pipe Storage Yard Haulage Road

14th October 2008

Trevor Muir, Richard Ackroyd, Ronnie Mercer, Stewart Stephenson, Jeremy Purvis, Les Thacker & Iain Young review the Glencorse model Ronnie Mercer, Les Thacker, Stewart Stephenson, Jeremy Purvis & Trevor Muir
Neil McCulloch, Richard Anderson & Roy Dahl - Scottish Water Project Team Ronnie Mercer, Les Thacker, Stewart Stephenson & Jeremy Purvis with Mauricewood Road Primary School

2nd September 2008

Temoporary Site Establishment

Soil Strip & Earth Bunding (1)

Soil Strip & Earth Bunding (2)

Overhead Powerline Protection

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