Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

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Beckton Sewage Treatment Works is an operational Thames Water sewage treatment works site and is the largest sewage treatment works in Europe. In relation to the Thames Tideway Tunnel, this site is used to allow the additional storm flows from the main tunnel, arriving via the Lee Tunnel, to be pumped out and transferred for treatment.

Works update

Thames Water are constructing a siphon tunnel and two adjacent shafts within Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, for the Tideway project. Thames Water have revised the design of this work and have submitted updated plans for approval. The application documents are available for inspection on the Thames Tideway Tunnel project page on the National Infrastructure Planning website.

The tunnel works at Beckton are complete and the system has passed all tests. Modifications are now being made to the control software to align the system with Tideway.

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Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

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