Tideway has completed the final shaft dug as part of the London super sewer project, meaning that all 21 of the scheme’s shafts have now been fully excavated.
The final shaft, the deepest of the project, was dug at King Edward Memorial Park in Wapping. A concrete base slab will new be poured at the shaft within the next month.
A series of contractors are working on the £4.1bn Thames Tideway construction, which is being funded by Thames Water and its customers. BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall are building the west section, Ferrovial Agroman UK and Laing O’Rourke are responsible for the central section, and Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche are building the east section. Meanwhile Amey is providing process control, communication equipment and software systems for operation and maintenance.
To mark the digging of the final shaft, Tideway has release new aerial imagery, showing the new land being built in the River Thames, created to allow Tideway to expand upon the existing sewer network.
Construction engineer Harriet Cheaney said: “These helicopter images not only give us amazing views of our beautiful city, but showcase the scale of the work Tideway is doing to clean up the River Thames.
“We’ve now built around 20km of the 25km super sewer and are around 65 per cent complete – but these amazing photos really bring the scale of our task to life.
“With this final shaft now complete, teams across Tideway have an eye on the finish line and are working around the clock to complete this job and clean up the River Thames.”
The project is due for completion in 2025.
