Lower Rivington Reservoir

Rivington Water Treatment Works is a water treatment plant in Rivington, Lancashire, England.[1] It is located below the Lower Rivington Reservoir, the last in the Rivington chain of reservoirs. The first treatment works, a slow-sand filter plant on the site opened in 1860, supplying water to Liverpool. The present works was built in 1994, and in 2007 was the largest automated three-stage plant operated by United Utilities, the water is now disinfected by adding small amounts of chlorine.[2] Most of its output supplies customers in the Wigan area.[3]

Raw water from the Rivington chain of reservoirs can be supplied to the Thirlmere Aqueduct via a pipeline downstream of the Lower Rivington Reservoir embankment and treated water via a pumping main and the Treated Water Pumping Station on the Rivington Water Treatment Works site. .

References

  1. ↑ "Catchment team contacts". United Utilities. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  2. ↑ U, U. "Getting it to your taps". United Utilities. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Rivington Water Treatment Works". United Utilities. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

53°36′20″N 2°35′57″W / 53.6056°N 2.5991°W / 53.6056; -2.5991


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