Electric submersibles and teamwork solve water main leak problemsSelwood’s pump rental teams are renowned for their responsiveness and problem-solving abilities – qualities which were put to the test following an urgent callout from Anglian Water. The alert started with a suspicious patch of wet road surface and ended up as a huge project, drawing upon the skills of Selwood’s installation teams and the expert use of electric submersible pumps. The sight of water seeping through the road surface in Church Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire, was the first sign that the 800mm water main which ran underneath it was leaking. The main spans between two pumping stations, one at Church Lane and the other at 900m away at East End. The challenge at hand was to install a discharge line through the tow

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