WORK to replace a 500 metre section of an old water main that’s nearly 90 years old began in Tamworth yesterday.
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The $477,000 project will take nine weeks and replace the half-kilometre length of cast iron water main pipe with lead joints that runs from near the Paradise Bridge up towards the Armidale Rd.
Trenching began yesterday to dig down about 90cm for the new 375mm ductile iron water main to be laid.
The new main section links from part of the water main network that today takes water from the treatment plant at Calala up to the higher points of East Tamworth.
Originally the line, laid 86 years ago, took water from the old Paradise wells and the connecting pipeline can be seen hanging off the side of the bridge over the Peel River there.
The new line will go from there along Peel St into East St and into Cockburn Ln near the caravan park before heading to Armidale Rd near the Quest apartments.
Civil construction manager Graeme McKenzie said the project also includes the demolition of a brick building which was originally a Peel-Cunningham County Council fitters workshop.
The works are part of the TRC asset management policy and the latest project in a continuing program of updating older parts of the city’s public infrastructure.