{"id":241511,"date":"2025-11-03T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:59:14","slug":"pipelines-will-connect-to-saxmundhams-water-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241511\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipelines will connect to Saxmundham&#8217;s water tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Water supplier Essex and Suffolk Water is holding the event at the Fromus Centre in Street Farm Road, Saxmundham on November 5 between 3.30pm and 7.30pm to discuss the Suffolk Water Recycling, Transfer, Recycling and Storage Project (SWRTS).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The SWRTS is part of the company&#8217;s long-term plan to secure reliable water supplies for Suffolk and will include a new Advanced Water Recyling Plant in Lowestoft and two new storage reservoirs near Sibton Green and Eye.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25165606.saxmundham-town-council-calls-meaningful-investment\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Saxmundham Town Council calls for &#8220;meaningful investment&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As part of the project, pipelines will be buried underground to connect to the Saxmundham water tower near Seaman Avenue, as well as Lowestoft, Barsham, Sibton Green and Eye.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Water recycling uses advanced treatment technology to turn highly treated waste water into purified recycled water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The water will pass through several treatment stages before being released, including filtration and reverse osmosis, which is a water purification process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to remove contaminants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Treated water will go to the Lowestoft plant to be purified before travelling to the River Waveney to mix with river water and then on to a plant at Barsham before entering the drinking water network.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25113265.sea-link-cable-will-link-friston-saxmundham\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Sea Link cable could link up with Friston and Saxmundham<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a post on its Facebook page, Saxmundham Town Council said: &#8220;Yet another major infrastructure project is proposed for Saxmundham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The SWRTS project could see new pipeline corridors from the town&#8217;s water tower.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The town is already being targeted for energy infrastructure projects associated with power firm National Grid&#8217;s plans to bring electricity onshore from offshore wind farms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A new converter station 26 metres high is set to be built at Saxmundham to receive cabling, including the so-called Sea Link interconnector carrying power between Suffolk and Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water supplier Essex and Suffolk Water is holding the event at the Fromus Centre in Street Farm Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-241511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}