Tideway welcomed the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the Rt Hon Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, to its new public space along Victoria Embankment this week.

The pair visited the site as the Mayor committed to bringing together partners to clean up London’s rivers over the next 10 years.

The site has been an important one for the super sewer project as it has worked to connect existing sewage spill points into the new 25km tunnel deep beneath the Thames.

Underground construction was finished in the spring of 2024, with the full length of the tunnel and its two smaller connection tunnels now ready to transport storm flows away for treatment.

Above ground at Victoria, the team is now putting the finishing touches on a beautiful new piece of public realm that will be known as Tyburn Quay, after one of London’s ‘lost rivers’.

It is one of seven new areas of public realm that have been built out into the Thames, offering never-before-seen vistas of the River Thames.

Andy Mitchell, Tideway CEO, said: “It was a great pleasure to host the Secretary of State and the Mayor of London at our Victoria Embankment site.

 “This is a key site for the super sewer project, which will transform the health of the River Thames. Our teams are working hard across the capital to bring this vital new infrastructure into full operation and give London the clean, healthy river it deserves.” 

Tideway’s teams across London continue working to connect and test the system before the project is complete in 2025.

Once fully up and running, the new infrastructure will virtually eliminate the harmful effect of sewage pollution on the tidal River Thames for many generations of Londoners.