Argyll & Bute sees clearer, fresher drinking water
What we're doing
Our 2010 Vision for Argyll & Bute will deliver a more secure supply of better quality drinking water for 60,000 residents in Argyll & Bute and the thousands of tourists who visit one of Scotland’s most beautiful regions every year.
Amount invested
We plan to invest around £72m in Argyll & Bute until 2010.
From 2002, we will have invested around £225 million in Argyll & Bute
We are spending more than £5700 per household in the area, against a Scotland-wide average of £1800.
Start date
Various projects underway in Mull, Seil, Helensburgh, Tiree, Rosneath, Taynuilt and Loch Etvie
End date
ongoing until 2010
Partners
Scottish Water Solutions, an innovative joint venture of utility companies and contractors
Biwater-Leslie and GMJV. Where possible, we will use local contractors
Argyll & Bute Councillor welcomes the investment
Councillor Len Scoullar, who represents Bute on Argyll & Bute Council, and is pictured here with Steven Fraser, Scottish Water's Regional Customer Operations Manager for Argyll & Bute, said:
“I am very pleased to learn of Scottish Water’s Vision for Argyll & Bute by 2010 and welcome the £20m investment to ensure the supply of clearer, fresher drinking water to tens of thousands of our residents"
Water Treatment Works projects in Argyll & Bute:
- Loch Ascog WTW in Bute, where a £7m project should be completed in the spring of 2009 and will improve the look and taste of the water delivered to 3500 customers, mainly in Rothesay.
- Dhu Loch WTW by Loch Fad, also on Bute, where supplies to 3000 more customers on the island will be improved when a £1.2m project is completed early next year.
- Campbeltown WTW, which will be upgraded at a cost of £500,000 and will improve the look and taste of the water for 5900 customers in the area when it is completed later this spring.
- Belmore New WTW, where more than £500,000 is being invested to improve the water for about 6100 customers in the Garelochhead, Rosneath, Shandon and Rhu areas in a project which is due to be completed in the summer.
- Port Charlotte, Ballygrant and Torra WTWs on Islay, where almost 3000 residents - most of the island’s population - will have their supplies improved following the completion of work worth a total of about £3.5m by mid-2009.
- Tullich WTW near Oban, where the high quality drinking water supply to 13,000 people will be maintained following £400,000 worth of investment which will be completed this spring.
- Other improvements at Water Treatment Works in Argyll include:Ardrishaig, Kilmelford, Dalmally, Tiree , Tarbert, Carrick Castle, Claddich, Craignure and Bunnessan(Mull), Arinagour (Coll), Finlas and Ardfern, while customers in Cardross will benefit from improvements to the Alexandria WTW in West Dunbartonshire.
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