Construction starts on avenue to save River Lee - Thames Water

In September 2010, major construction work started on the Lee Tunnel - a new four-mile sewer the width of three double decker buses, which will prevent 16 million tonnes of sewage overflowing into the River Lee each year. The £635m tunnel will take discharges from London's largest combined sewer overflow at Abbey Mills in Stratford, east London, for treatment at Beckton sewage works, which is being expanded so it can deal with the additional flows. Martin Baggs, Thames Water's CEO, cut the first sod at the Beckton shaft site. This is one of four shafts, which will be up to 75m deep. Tunnelling work will start in 2012, with the project due for completion in 2014. The Lee Tunnel will be the deepest tunnel ever constructed in London, and is Thames Water's biggest engineering project to date. For more information, please visit our website: www.thameswater.co.uk



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