In Hampshire work has started on an £8 million scheme to safeguard the quality of drinking water in parts of Southampton and Eastleigh.

Otterbourne
We are building a membrane filter plant to treat water taken from underground sources at our Otterbourne water supply works. The filter will screen out microscopic particles bigger than one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter. The membrane filter plant is expected to be on line by September 2004.

Portsmouth and Havant
Southern Water's £100 million scheme to upgrade wastewater facilities in Portsmouth and Havant has delivered huge environmental benefits for local people.

The scheme consists of a new wastewater treatment works at Budds Farm, Havant, and a new 8km tunnel beneath Langstone Harbour, to link Portsmouth and Havant.

Wastewater from Portsmouth is transferred by the new tunnel to the Budds Farm treatment works. There, it is combined with wastewater arriving from the Havant area and undergoes full treatment.

The treated wastewater is then transferred via the same tunnel, to a new and refurbished pumping station at Eastney where it is released out to sea through the existing 5.7km long sea outfall.

The tunnel has meant there are no longer daily flows of wastewater into the environmentally sensitive Langstone Harbour.

We have also completed a £2.5 million sewer flooding alleviation scheme at St Lukes Road, Gosport.