Carrying 210 million litres of water a day to 900,000 people in Cheshire and Merseyside, the trunk main consists of three parallel pipelines that run from Lake Vyrnwy in Powys, through Oswestry Water Treatment Works to Prescot Water Treatment Works near Liverpool. Lines 1 and 2 were constructed as unlined cast iron mains in the 1890s, while Line 3 is a bitumen-lined steel main that was laid in the 19

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