The Challenge – The Birmingham Resilience Project, currently one of the largest projects in the UK Water Industry is a scheme designed to provide an alternative source of water to the city of Birmingham. In addition to new tunnels on the existing Elan Valley Aqueduct, there is a new water extraction source taken from the River Severn just north of Stourbridge. Birmingham Resilience Case Study Location Birmingham Project To provide an alternative source of water to the city of Birmingham From the new river intake and pumping station at Lickhill the water will be pumped in excess of 30 bar through a new 25 kilometre long DN1000 pipeline to Frankley Water Treatment Works in Birmingham, which is itself has been upgraded to accommodate the new source of water. Water utilities proj

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