A huge engineering and tunnelling project has been approved which aims to ensure better water supply to Bury for generations. The massive Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP), involves the replacement of six underground tunnel sections of the 110 kilometre Haweswater Aqueduct that brings fresh water from the Lake District to Bury.
The aqueduct carries water from the Haweswater reservoir to a water treatment works near Kendal and then southwards to Bury. Bury’s planning committee have approved works in Bury to form part of the Haslingden and Walmersley Section of the aqueduct.
Work on the project is expected to start in around three years. The section to Walmersley is one of five new tunnel sections totalling a length of 53 km across seven different planning authorities. Each tunnel section needs a drive shaft compound and reception shaft compound.
