As part of your application, Anglian Water requires environmental information on soil conditions for your site. An assessment is required to ascertain the chemical composition of the soil and the physical characteristics of the site.
An assessment is required to ascertain the chemical composition of the soil and the physical characteristics of the site. Certain compounds such as oil, solvents and petrol can permeate the polyethylene (PE) water pipes that we would normally use, this can compromise water quality rendering it unfit for human consumption.
Our contaminated land brochure provides detailed information about contaminated land and ground condition assessment.
Further information on the installation of water supply pipes in contaminated land can be found on the United Kingdom Water Industry Research (UKWIR) website under Report Ref. No. 10/WM/03/21 - 'Guidance for the Selection of Water Supply Pipes to be used in Brownfield Sites' http://www.ukwir.org/web/ukwirlibrary/93452
The report contains an Appendix ('November 2010 Q&A Update') which provided feedback from the authors (WRc) to queries that had been received about the earlier version of the Guidance (published in April 2010). Since that time, further queries have been received from users of the guidance which can be downloaded here.