INTERVIEW

摘要

In just over a month's time Thames Water will know if its planning application to build the £4.2B Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) has been successful. Phil Stride, head of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, is confident it will go through. "We're confident in our application and whilst we're considering all possibilities we're planning on the basis that we'll get a development consent order." The Tideway Tunnel is needed to tackle the millions of tonnes of raw sewage that discharges into the tidal River Thames every year. When completed in 2023, it will act as an interception, storage and transfer tunnel. The tunnel's proposed route follows the Thames to Limehouse and then goes north-east to Abbey Mills Pumping Station near Stratford. From there it will connect to the Lee Tunnel, which will transfer the sewage to Beckton STW. Thames Water will be responsible for £1.4B of the cost of the project and the remaining £2.8B will be down to the independent infrastructure provider (IP). CH2M Hill has been the programme manager on the project, having been appointed in 2008.