Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minutes of Evidence


Annex 1

Water industry support provided to Severn Trent during recent flooding



Company
Tankers
Bowsers/ tanks
Manpower
Other

Thames Water
2 x 9,000 litre tankers 24 hrs a day for one week
251 cleaned and disinfected static tanks (1100 litres)
107 additional un-disinfected static tanks (1100 litres)
6 drivers on a rotating shift for the two tankers
Two nights of overtime preparing the static tanks for dispatch
Wessex
3 15,000ltr tankers and 1 25,000ltr tanker
80 (2500L), 100 bowsers
10 staff
South West
5 x 5000g
2 x 2000g
12 x 500g from Gregory
100
10 drivers on various shifts
3 persons acting as deployment team and Management in SWW
4 x tractor units from local hauliers pulling SWW trailers.
Offered overland mains laying team and 6km of pipework
South Staffs/Aqua Direct
4 (30000L)
10 + 40
Aqua Direct is running its bottling plant 24/7 and despatching bottled water as and when readily available. We have also depleted our stock
Mid Kent (1)
Tankers from WD
From WD
Bottles from WD
Sutton & East Surrey
2 (13000L)
Bournemouth
4 (9000L to 13000L)
8 drivers + support manager
Welsh
199 x 550g tanks
12 x 400g non domestic
Offered tanker fill points in Wales
United Utilities
7 x 1500g
281 tanks
5 drivers
2 Field Service Engineers
4 Network operators
Mobile comms vehicle deployed to flooded WTW
South East (2)
1 (25000L)
Scottish
4 (18000L)
1 (9000L)
Southern
100 (1800L)
Bristol
1 x 25000L
1 x 1800L
1 x 14500L
50
5 drivers + 3 support
1 man at Avonmouth fill point. Local and HQ Management
2 grab lorries
6 man days, providing cross border supply options
Northumbrian
3 (30,000L)
18 (1100L)
2 incident managers
Northern Ireland Water
2 tankers
Anglian Water
2 x 4000 gallon tankers with drivers
60 No. 250 gallon bowsers, 100 static tanks
1 Media Manager support
Water Direct
All fleet
Contractor to Cambridge
2 (28000L)


  Notes:

  (1)  Mid Kent authorised Water Direct to issue from their stocks at WD, to ST on request.

  (2)  Operated by Water Direct—deployed this trailer locally enabling 2 x 10,000 litre WD tankers to be deployed with Severn Trent.

  (3)  Three Valleys Water responded through Water Direct.





 
previous page contents next page

House of Commons home page Parliament home page House of Lords home page search page enquiries index

© Parliamentary copyright 2008
Prepared 7 May 2008