Thames plans pounds 800m reservoir

The Independent - London | April 13, 1997| | Copyright

Thames Water is drawing up plans for a new pounds 800m reservoir as part of its long-term strategic programme for maintaining water supplies to its customers.

Thames has identified a tranche of low-grade agricultural land just south west of Abingdon in Oxfordshire where the four-square-mile reservoir would be built.

The company is preparing a planning application and is already working with local environmentalists to ensure it can answer the inevitable concerns arising from the five-year construction project. Without the reservoir, the company is concerned that London and the Thames region ...

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