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Re: Origin of Wirral's tap water?
[Re: Greenwood]
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31st Dec 2017 10:49am
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As I understood, Liverpool water comes from a reservoir in Wales, and Wirral does too but not sure if it's the same reservoir.
Probably more chemicals added to different areas.
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Re: Origin of Wirral's tap water?
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Much of Wirral's water comes now from the River Dee from an abstraction plant in Chester. There are many boreholes in Wirral a number of them used for water supply before the abstraction plant was completed.. They can be seen on a map here: http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html?Many of them have details of depth, diameter, rate of abstraction of water etc. Of particular interest to me was a borehole at Bebington station, drilled in 1931. It is located in the heavily overgrown patch of land on the ALDI side of the embankment and was used to supply locomotives with water. There is a small building (now invisible under layers of bramble, ivy, nettles etc) above the well which is 27" in diameter and was drilled down to 300 feet. It must have been quite heavily used. In 1949 51 million gallons were abstracted. Thirsty beasts, steam engines!
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Re: Origin of Wirral's tap water?
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The south east i.e. Kent have there own boreholes. They closed them all of in the late 1970's . So they shouldn't need any of our water. I think that idea will fall apart, it was probably another idea for unification of all water companies(eventually) .Only need to see how many shares of our utilities are owned by foreign Governments. I believe the French got a huge percentage of NW Water when the water authorities were floated on the stock market a number of years ago. I always did wonder what the French wanted with our water companies.
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Re: Origin of Wirral's tap water?
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SO far as HS2 goes, well that's different. I didn't think it was a good ide to begin with , now I'm not so sure. I do think it's a way of moving people out of London and bringing the 'bosses' to manage the companies they will re-locate. However, if it contributes to the regeneration of the area, then it must be good. With the promised Peel Ports, things can't stay the same as they are now. Transport infrastructure and logistics has to be of main concern.
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Re: Origin of Wirral's tap water?
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It tells which companies were sold off here. Pretty incredible ! Who owns Britain. Published in May 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...aunches-first-uk-stock-take-1974079.htmlLooks like Australia have a stake in our water !
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