Work Begins On £120m Scottish Water Investment Project

Work is underway on the first phase of Scottish Water's £120 million drinking water investment programme in East Renfrewshire and Ayrshire.

Pipe installation works are being carried out for a 13 mile-long strategic water main from near Newton Mearns to the Fenwick/Waterside area.

The scheme follows 18 months of preparatory work, including the creation of a strip for the water main to be installed, and involved close liaison with landowners and statutory bodies as well as detailed ecological studies.


Scottish Water contractors are now setting up welding areas and excavating five metre-deep trenches before using a crane to lower 12 metre-long sections of pipe into place.

It is expected the water mains construction will take around four years and will create a 'larger, more robust' connected supply.

Other sections of new mains include a section of about 13 miles from the Fenwick Waterside area to Dundonald in South Ayrshire and a section of about six miles from the Pollok area to a reservoir storage tank in the south of Glasgow

Stewart Davis, Scottish Water's programme manager, said: "We are delighted to have completed all the preparatory work for this section of main and to have started the construction phase.

"This is a major piece of work on the first phase of Scottish Water's overall investment in improvements to connect the system in Ayrshire with the Greater Glasgow area's network."

(LM)