Barhale has been tasked with providing an extensive overhaul to Thames Water’s Folkestone Road pumping station – one of four strategic pumping stations that reinforce flows along the northern outfall sewer and feed into Beckton sewage treatment works.
Initially, the Barhale team will investigate the storm conditions behaviour and telemetry at the pumping station as part of a detailed design phase. The main works, due to start in early 2022, will replace the pumping station’s transformers, generators, storm pumps and electrical instrumentation control automation (EICA) integration with new motor control centres.
Barhale design and engineering manager Ben Connis said: “Folkestone Road is a vital part of the infrastructure supporting Beckton sewage treatment works – one of the largest sewage facilities in Europe. Beckton is basically serving most of north and east London so each of the four supporting pumping stations performs a critical role.
“We are going first into a ECI (early contractor involvement) phase, which will give us the opportunity to engineer out some of the operating issues and to ensure that the replacement strategy will make the most of better equipment with modern control systems – ultimately delivering a significantly more robust and resilient system for residents of the capital.
“Having already been involved in the upgrade works at Beckton sewage treatment works, mainly in preparation to accept the flows from the Thames Tideway Tunnel, it’s a real feather in our caps to also be selected by Thames Water to upgrade the infrastructure leading to the treatment works.”
The principal works are expected to take around 18 months with completion in October 2023.
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